The Devotional –
Comment: One of the current enlistment
incentives for the U.S. Army is “Be all that you can be” it is also an
incentive for the Army’s re-enlistment program. In other words; if you did not
get it right the first time, try it again; eventually or by the time you retire
you may have reached the Army’s goal. Now, the Army seeks the best in those who
join or reenlist, but the Army in and of itself is not flawless, as it is with
everything touched by human hands. Everything designed, developed and invented
by people will always need improvement or replacement. Even the character of
man is an ongoing process of maturing but perfection is never achieved.
Devotional: God’s perfect Character teaches the
children of God to be all they can be as well, but. God’s goal is not
perfection, it is HOLINESS. Holiness, like His Word and Character is not
changeable, therefore it is one giant spiritual step above perfection. His
Character is an everlasting ‘statute’, and in His calling, there is a continual
challenge for the children of God to put on Christ and to discard the deeds of
the flesh.
Paul’s
epistles are written to God’s children for us to keep on running the race to
holiness. Ephesians 2:18 – For though Him (Jesus) we both have access, by the
Spirit to the Father, see also Romans 1:4. All was written with the words of
Jesus in mind. “I have come, that you may have life and
have it more abundantly!” John 10:10b.
“As the Father has loved
me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you
will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in
his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy
may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater
love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my
friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a
servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you
friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go
and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the
Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.
God’s challenge and call is clear,
to be all you can be in God’s army you must LOVE as GOD LOVES in the holiness
of the Spirit.
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