Perfect

“Perfect in Christ Jesus,” (Colossians 1:28). Do you not feel in your own soul that there is no perfection in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye weeps “imperfection.” Every harsh word which proceeds from your lip mutters “imperfection.” You have too often seen your own heart to imagine—even for a moment—any perfection in yourself. But amid this sad consciousness of imperfection, here is comfort for you: you are perfect in Christ Jesus. In God’s sight, you are “complete in Him” (Colossians 2:10); even now you are “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6). But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is guaranteed to all God’s children. Is it not a delight to look forward to the time when every stain of sin will be removed from us? When we will be presented faultless before the throne, “without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish” (Ephesians 5:27)? The church of Christ then will be so pure that not even God’s omniscient eye will see a spot in her—so holy and glorious, that a writer did not exaggerate when he said, With my Savior’s garments on, Holy as the Holy One. Author Unknown Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this short but vast sentence: “Complete in Christ.” Not until then will we fully comprehend the heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus. Doesn’t your heart leap for joy at the thought of it? Oh, this is a marvelous salvation! Filthy as you are now, you will be clean. Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel. He takes a dirty and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, without equal in His beauty, and fit to be the companion of the highest angels. Oh, my soul—stand in awe of the blessed truth of perfection in Christ.

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening