Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Heb 13:20-21).
This passage tells us:
1. God is the one who has a programme for our growth.
2. He achieves this programme by the price He has paid: His blood.
God equips us for every good work through Jesus Christ. We do not do it through our discipleship programmes. God does it by faith. If you have a programme for your perfection and maturity then you are in the flesh. God’s programme is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other programme and no flesh that will glory in His presence. Jesus does not show you a way to do things, rather He is the way.
I am the way, the truth and the life…(John 14:6).
We have trouble relating this to daily life without a list of rules. But when we apply our own rules we take it out of His hands. Hebrews 13 shows us that God works in us what He wants according to His Fathering of us and He does this through the blood of His Son and not through our own merits. We relate to this by faith and obedience, not through works.
A child grows and matures naturally. He does not eat food as a discipline, but as a natural appetite. That is how we grow on God’s word. We develop over time as we grow in our Father’s house. It is “natural” when we are born again and when He lives in us. We cannot force growth. Father has a plan and we cannot speed it up or slow it down.
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