"Perseverance must finish its work so that you will be mature and complete, not lacking in anything."
The final benefit of perseverance is spiritual fulfillment and maturity. Real rest comes when one has learnt the secret of trust in the midst of life's storms. For the devil may try to change and influence all that we see, touch, feel, hear but he can never touch our faith in the Lord if we hold on to it.
The work 'Mature'(Greek: teleioi), means 'perfect or 'finished' while the word 'complete' (Greek:holokleroi) means 'whole' when put together means to be perfect all over or fully developed in every part.
Christians can go through all kinds of trials with joy when they learned to go through it in faith, perseverance comes into the picture and if perseverance is fully stretched with time, it makes this man/woman a person that is thoroughly mature and lacks nothing.
Through experiences of pain, struggles and yet depending on the daily provisions of God for the soul, body and mind, a christian matures and hence is able to better guide others who goes through a similiar trial.
The key is to persevere with a good attitude, always believing that it is God's plan to make us a better person through this.
Important Note :
I have chosen based on my study from 'The Bible Knowledge Commentary' by John F.Walvoord and Roy B.Zack and selectively re-typed some of the more important parts, together with some of my own additional explanation to make this study simpler to digest and understand. My re-phrasing does not show a different meaning to what was originally written.
No comments:
Post a Comment