The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
“Change, Now and Forever”
Born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ require change throughout our earthly lifetime (as we will throughout eternity).
The issue involves growth and correction. Growth involves the fact that we are related to an infinite God, whose character, nature, and way transcend measure. We will forever discover new aspects of who He is and how He works.
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33).
We can ponder no more thrilling thought than the truth that we will never reach the end of our journey into the heart and mind of our glorious Lord. Forever we will ask…
“Who are You, Lord? What have You done according to Your eternal purpose in the Lord Jesus? What are You doing? What will You do forevermore?”
We presently seek the answers that result in the change of growth and maturing. We will continue to ask the questions in eternity, even after our deliverance from the present realm of sin and death. By definition, an infinite God can never be fully known, nor His truth completely understood. The One for whom our hearts were made will never fail to reveal new “wonders without number,” or enhance glories already known. We will forever grow in His glorious light. “His greatness is unsearchable” (Job 9:10; Psalm 145:3).
In our present lifetime, we also require the change of correction.
“My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction. For whom the Lord loveth He correcteth; even as a father the son in whom He delighteth” (Proverbs 3:11-12).
In this moment, every believer on the earth is wrong about something(s). Hopefully, the matter does not involve major tenets of God’s Biblical truth, although it can (as the New Testament epistles clearly confirm). The detours may be relatively minor in our understanding of His truth, involving nuances of perspective. They require addressing nonetheless. Our role begins with the acknowledgement that knowing nothing yet as we “ought to know” includes matters of error (I Corinthians 8:2). “Cleanse Thou me from secret faults” wisely prayed the Psalmist, whose example we should and must follow (Psalm 19:12).
Certainly, we keep our hearts and minds near the Word of God, declared by the Apostle Paul as a vital tool of correction (II Timothy 3:16). Fellow believers also serve as agents of change regarding correction when we are “overtaken in a fault” (Galatians 6:1). Finally, humility serves as the door that must remain open for the change of both growth and correction to have consistent access. Indeed, let us acknowledge to our Lord in this moment that however we may have progressed along the path of righteousness, the journey has just begun. How could it be otherwise as we relate to an infinite God and His eternal truth? Yes, our need for change humbles us. But how it should far more thrill us as the Holy Spirit ever works to mature us, correct us, and reveal to us the God far more glorious than even eternity will fully reveal.
“Beholding a in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
(II Corinthians 3:18)
“Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
(Philippians 1:6)
Weekly Memory Verse
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction. For whom the Lord loveth He correcteth; even as a father the son in whom He delighteth.
(Proverbs 3:11-12).
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