GRACE, PERFECTION AND SEEKING GOD

To be crystal clear, immediate "sinless perfection" is not biblically accurate and gravitates towards legalism or hypocrisy and away from the sanctifying work of grace in a maturing believer's life.

However, a person who is walking with God or is in fellowship with God, is sensitive to sin, has a loathing for sin and does not deceitfully excuse or dubiously entertain wrongdoing and wickedness through the shallow or decontextualized understanding and recontextualized teaching of the Scriptures for earthly gain. No. They turn honestly to God in heart-broken repentance and seek Spirit-empowered righteous living. We all need God's grace; for without Him, we can do nothing and in Him we live, move and have our being. It's a vital walk with God.

That's the genuine Christian life; that's true reverential fear of God that does not abuse "grace" for evil but rather judiciously uses and depends on the grace of God for good and greater good, brighter and brighter unto the perfect day of the Lord. That's the path of righteousness; the path of the just. It's not pseudo perfection or self-righteousness. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, not just for physical things but, more so, for spiritual things!

The "ask, seek and knock" principles of Matthew 7:7-8 are not limited to seeking for material blessings and breakthroughs. We can also, and even more importantly, channel them towards spiritual blessings and breakthroughs. We can seek God's Kingdom and righteousness first or we can seek the pursuits, vanity and deception of the world system. We can seek to serve God or we can seek to serve mammon.

Fact is: what we diligently seek is what we definitely secure. Seek and you shall find. 

 Selah.
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