Traveling towards perfection
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The Christian life is a process of continuous renewal and involvement in God's dealings. We must continually add new components to our Christian life and work towards greater things. The goal is to become a collector of virtues and to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God. We should not be satisfied with where we are and always seek to be more like Christ. God calls us on an adventure, to be a knight-errant, looking for the next giant to defeat. We must understand this vision of the Christian life so that we can live accordingly and not waste God's intervention in our lives.
The Christian life is a perpetual journey towards perfection, involving continuous renewal, service, and giving. God uses every aspect of our lives, even dark and sinister things, to work for our growth and development. The Christian life is not passive, but dynamic, involving continuous progress towards the goal. We are called to contemplate the glory of Christ through intimacy with Him, allowing His personality to be transferred to us. The Christian life is about continually adding virtues and components, and fighting for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
The Christian life is a continuous process of contemplation of Christ, with movement, dynamism, and progression towards the goal. Christians should be actively involved in the process of their sanctification and cooperating with God to put off the old nature and assume the divine nature. God wants to form a church of consecrated people who are in perpetual treatment by the Holy Spirit, hungry for God's treatment in their lives, active, and not passive. All things that pertain to life and godliness have been given to believers by God's divine power. Christians have access to high and sublime principles and truths and should behave in a certain way to honor God's trust. Christians are called to develop new virtues, adding components to their lives. Christians should hunger for God, thirst for God, and want to know Christ, and God will fill them, give them living water, and reveal himself to them.
Paul encourages adding new virtues to faith, such as godliness and contentment. God wants us to know him intimately and thirst for him. If we seek him, he will fill us with living water. The Gospel is not just a religious activity, but a dynamic one with Christ. God wants to reveal himself to us like he did on the mountain with his disciples. He wants us to see him in all his glory.
The Christian life is a perpetual journey towards perfection, involving continuous renewal, service, and giving. God uses every aspect of our lives, even dark and sinister things, to work for our growth and development. The Christian life is not passive, but dynamic, involving continuous progress towards the goal. We are called to contemplate the glory of Christ through intimacy with Him, allowing His personality to be transferred to us. The Christian life is about continually adding virtues and components, and fighting for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
The Christian life is a continuous process of contemplation of Christ, with movement, dynamism, and progression towards the goal. Christians should be actively involved in the process of their sanctification and cooperating with God to put off the old nature and assume the divine nature. God wants to form a church of consecrated people who are in perpetual treatment by the Holy Spirit, hungry for God's treatment in their lives, active, and not passive. All things that pertain to life and godliness have been given to believers by God's divine power. Christians have access to high and sublime principles and truths and should behave in a certain way to honor God's trust. Christians are called to develop new virtues, adding components to their lives. Christians should hunger for God, thirst for God, and want to know Christ, and God will fill them, give them living water, and reveal himself to them.
Paul encourages adding new virtues to faith, such as godliness and contentment. God wants us to know him intimately and thirst for him. If we seek him, he will fill us with living water. The Gospel is not just a religious activity, but a dynamic one with Christ. God wants to reveal himself to us like he did on the mountain with his disciples. He wants us to see him in all his glory.
People get on planes every day, and the world is filled with tens of thousands of planes every day that are flying around the world. And that plane has a particularity and that is that once it takes flight, it cannot stop. It can't stop. If you think about it, it's what makes you feel so fragile. The fact that that plane can travel thousands of miles and it has to keep moving, if it stops moving what happens to it? It goes to the ground. As long as that plane is in the air, those engines have to be running. If they stop, they are a cause of disaster. And those of us on that plane are taking a great risk, but we do it because we want to travel, we want to go to other places. But the idea of that, a vehicle that has to be constantly moving because if it stops before reaching the goal, there is destruction. And it occurs to me that our lives are like that, that it has to be a process in perpetual motion. Once you enter into a relationship with Christ and enter into the Gospel, you are obliged to continue in process, in movement. You can't stop.
And therein lies the Christian life. The Christian life is a process of continuous renewal, continuous work, continuous sanctification, continuous treatment of God with us. And when we enter the Gospel we do not enter to vegetate, we do not enter to be calm or comfortable. It is a process, to some extent sometimes, agonizing to which we commit ourselves. However, I would say that a large part of the Christian world when they enter the Gospel believe that, okay, we are here, I already punched the card, I already raised my hand, and now they just wait for the day to come to enter the presence of the Mister. No. And God wants us to be continually in effort. It comes to mind, I'm getting ahead of myself, the words I think from Philippians, where the Apostle Paul says, "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling." And that word take care means that we have to be busy. We have to be continually in process, busy working for our own blessing, growth, development and for the Kingdom of God.
And therein lies the Christian life. The Christian life is a process of continuous renewal, continuous work, continuous sanctification, continuous treatment of God with us. And when we enter the Gospel we do not enter to vegetate, we do not enter to be calm or comfortable. It is a process, to some extent sometimes, agonizing to which we commit ourselves. However, I would say that a large part of the Christian world when they enter the Gospel believe that, okay, we are here, I already punched the card, I already raised my hand, and now they just wait for the day to come to enter the presence of the Mister. No. And God wants us to be continually in effort. It comes to mind, I'm getting ahead of myself, the words I think from Philippians, where the Apostle Paul says, "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling." And that word take care means that we have to be busy. We have to be continually in process, busy working for our own blessing, growth, development and for the Kingdom of God.
