Let Us God On To Perfection

Have you ever run up the down escalator? Trying to walk up the down escalator is dangerous, and exhausting.
Spiritually brothers and sisters, living a faithful, obedient life in Christ in this world, is like being on an escalator going down, all the time you need to go up.
This world is going downward, we are striving to go upward. It is a challenge, but with God on our side (Rom. 8:31), it is also attainable.

To the Hebrews a warning was written,
“1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits.” (Heb. 6:1-3)
There in the first verse you see the words, let us go on to perfection. This in context is a warning for every Christian to press on to spiritual maturity.

We must not think of spiritual maturity as a state of sinlessness because it is not.
The goal of every child of God in striving for completeness, is to serve God through obedient love, to love the body of Christ (Col. 1:18) and to keep His commandments (John 14:15).
Also the spiritually minded will have a propensity to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10; Matt. 28:19-20; Luke 15).
Living righteous lives means repenting of every sin, that is discontinuing what is unacceptable to God, and doing what is acceptalble (2 Cor. 7:9-11).
Then and only then can the child of God hope to achieve a state of moral and spiritual completeness.

Let’s spend some time studying these great things…