God Will Never Abandon You...Ever!

 

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:6).

When God saved us initially, He began an extraordinary work to bring us into the likeness of His darling Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the Word and by His Spirit we venture along a journey of sanctification and transformation being further conformed to Christ’s great image. Along our journey we sometimes stumble, fall, stray off course, and even abandoned the trip for a season. God in His infinite grace still does not abandon us as if we are a science project that went wrong somewhere. Perhaps we have not strayed so far off course like some, but we have not ventured very far either…. So we wonder if God has left us behind concluding we just are not worth the effort. Perhaps we have stumbled so many times that we are certain God must have thrown up His hands in absolute exasperation by now! No, no, and no, our Heavenly Father promises to complete His purpose in our lives and assures us He will. This is His “good work” in each of His children!

He will persist at this gracious work in our spirits, souls, and bodies until the day when the Lord Jesus comes to receive us unto Himself in the Rapture (1 Thess. 4:13-18). In a split moment and as quick as a mere glint of an eye, we will finally instantly completely and consummately be ‘upgraded'--likened to Jesus Christ in character and body (Rom. 8:29; Phil. 3:20, 21). At once we will be in the glorious Presence of God—Christ Jesus! Oh, how outrageously splendid is Christ our LORD! Hallelujah!! Beloved, to finally behold HIM is to be immediately transfigured into His very magnificent image (1 John 3:1-3)! We will even have a brand new glorious body to match our perfect spirit and soul (1 Cor. 15:51-58)! Philippians 1:6 is God’s joy-filled promise to us, that He will not in any wise abandon the “good work” He has begun in us! No, Beloved, He will bring each of us to full glory in Christ Jesus. Believe this promise and venture farther in your journey to Christ-likeness with this blessed assurance.