Excellence Is Pure

Excellence Is Pure – Envision It!

Sometimes when I hear some so called Gospel Ministers and Christian faith believers say this: ‘It doesn’t matter what they do God still loves them’, I begin to wonder what this life of grace has become in the 21st century.

Is it true that God still loves us in faith no matter what we do? Who then will question the unsaved and what right do we have then to preach the Gospel to the unsaved.

Know full well that God loves us, does not mean He does commend a life being lived outside His Word. As I have always said time and again that our God will only COMMEND what He COMMAND and ORDERED. All things excellent will work for the good of those who not only love God BUT walk and do according to the course of His Word – Purpose.

Many times, God’s purposes of excellence to us, is so clear before us, but we need to walk and work in the course of that envisioned covenant of His grace; and if one begin to do any act of life outside His Word, we will surely loose out in our place of grace to excel. Apostle Paul says this in Galatians 2:21 ” I do not FRUSTRATE the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain”. Meaning I do not do things that will make the grace of inoperative and ineffective in my life.

Living example of frustrating grace is as this: That’s what happened to Reuben the first born of Jacob. Though born for envisioned excellent, he lost his place of blessedness to excel to his younger brother Joseph, for sleeping with one of His father’s wives. You can’t eat your cake and have it. Grace for excellence is not cheap or not to be taken for granted and done with despite as Hebrews 10:29 warns and enjoins:

“of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done DESPITE unto the Spirit of grace?”

When you look through the heroes of Faith in Patriarchal order of Hebrews chapter eleven, you will notice after Jacob comes Joseph instead of Reuben though he was his father’s excellency of dignity. That’s why you must be on guard on your envisioned excellence.

EXCELLENCE IS PURE! So, if you crave to have God’s good and best, watch your path of life to the envisioned excellence.

“And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 unstable as water, thou shalt not EXCEL; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch” (Genesis 49:1-4).

“. . . By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. . .” (Hebrews 11:20-22).

Rev Chukie MORSI