Made complete

 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. – Hebrews 13.20-21

 

May the God of all peace, who raised the dead and shepherds the sheep, make us complete in every good work through His blood.

 

Complete in Christ – what a blessed thought that is. One day this is all going to be done. Everything is so halfway and transitory now. Nothing feels final because nothing is final.

 

One day though it will all be complete. We will do His will, He will do His good pleasure in us.

 

Sometimes this old like can seem like a never ended series of struggles – but it won't be that way forever. It will all be made complete in Him one day, and as we’ve seen so many times, what a day that will be.

 

Ben Everson’s great hymn says it better than I ever could:

Complete in Thee,

No work of mine

Could take, dear Lord,

The place of Thine.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And I shall stand

Complete in Thee.

 

Yea, justified, oh, blessed thought,

And sanctified, salvation wrought.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And glorified I, too, shall be.

 

Complete in Thee,

Each want supplied,

And no good thing

To me denied.

Since Thou my portion, Lord, will be,

I ask no more,

Complete in Thee.

 

Yea, justified, oh, blessed thought,

And sanctified, salvation wrought.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And glorified I, too, shall be.

 

Complete in Thee,

No more shall sin

Thy grace has conquered

Reign within.

Thy blood shall bid the tempter flee,

And I shall stand

Complete in Thee.

 

Yea, justified, oh, blessed thought,

And sanctified,  salvation wrought.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And glorified I, too, shall be.

Dear Savior, when before Thy bar

All tribes and tongues assembled are,

Among the chosen I shall be

At thy right hand,

Complete in Thee.

 

Yea, justified, oh, blessed thought,

And sanctified, salvation wrought.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And glorified I, too, shall be.

Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,

And glorified I, too, shall be.