Faultless

June 6

Each of us desires to be able to follow a right path. Each of us wants to be able to look at the man in the mirror and affirm to him that we are doing our best to advance his interests. We want to do what’s right—not just what’s right for ‘Number One,’ but right. We want to be good, honorable, caring, generous, loving people. We just aren’t.

We just aren’t. That’s the bad news. The good news is that God knows our frame and He knows our foibles and He has devised a plan to overcome the worst of our nature, and to conform us to the best of His nature. Jesus is the plan. He took counsel with Himself before the world was established and set the plan in motion (Revelation 13:8).

Jude, the brother of Jesus who referred to himself only as the Lord’s servant wrote some very encouraging words in this regard. In the first chapter of the brief epistle that bears his name, verses 24-25, he said, “To Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore. Amen.”

Jesus, our Savior, is the only One who can keep us from falling short of the good we desire to be the essence of our character. Because Jesus bore our sin to Calvary and there died that we may live, that we may thrive in the inner man, we need not fall back into the waywardness and folly of sin. We need only hold fast to Him, and He will hold us up and present us faultless before the throne of the Majesty on High.