The Meditation of the Practice of Our Holiness- Part 1

The meditation and practice of our holiness revolve around a very important point that Paul draws in our text for today's study. A second time we pointed toward the conclusion of the whole presentation set before us in the preceding texts. Before it was “finally, brethren, rejoice in the Lord.” The whole history of conversion with all its preliminary struggles, the terrors and sorrows of repentance, the hopes and fears of faith, finds its issue and rest in this. But here is a second “finally.” There is something beyond the exultation of deliverance through Christ; that is the attainment of a perfect character in Him. As followers of Jesus, we are urged to fix our full and determinate thought upon His perfection at work in us. The word is often used to signify due appreciation, and it bids us here with strong emphasis estimate rightly the place morality and holiness holds in the gospel.