Thoughts that have come from various quotes taken from the book, "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim Based Society" by John H. Hovis. Click here to link directly to the audio file.
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"God sees you as holy, perfect, blameless, no one like you in the whole world. That’s the standing you have with Him. That’s what it means to be a Child of God’s."
As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis Page 55.
I still can't fully trust the statement I made from the quote above. I know myself too well. Holy...perfect...blameless - UH I don't think so. There has been so many times that those three words would laugh out loud if I were to try and use them to describe me. I have had way too many times where my actions prove just the opposite - unholy, imperfection, and deserving of blame all fit my life a lot more than the way God views my life.
That's the beauty and power of a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. It just isn't up to me to make those three words be accurate descriptions of how my life looks. You see, God views my life through the lens of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ. When I choose to walk with God because of what Jesus did for me, I can then claim the victor sounding descriptions of holy, perfect and blameless as part of my life.
Sure I would like to live up to those descriptions. It is my hope that I can take steps to make holiness, perfection and blamelessness more a part of my life. The reality is that I will never be able to do at the level required to be how God sees me. It is when I try to do to prove who I am that victim thinking is sure to follow.
You see, it is just impossible for me to do holy 100% of the time. Same goes with doing perfection and blamelessness. Being a human being I will inevitably mess up in one or all three of those important characteristics of a victor. If I am relying on my actions to prove who I am, when I fail to do in ways that make that proof a reality sooner or later victim thinking will take over in my life. When that does, victor living just isn't possible.
God is pretty clear on the work we do in our lives. The purpose and the objective of that work has nothing to do with proving who we are. Check out today's Bible reading as it deals with our calling to do and what that doing is all about.
We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:9-10 (MSG)
"We had nothing to do with it..." That's what God says about our holiness, perfection and blamelessness. It was all up to Him. We don't have anything to do with it. This is also the case with the work we do to try and be holy, perfect and blameless. Unless we do this work from the place of serving God we will fail in ways that will always lead to victim thinking. Frankly, working to prove our victor status by trying to do holy, perfection and blameless is a waste of time. We are wasting the time we could be applying to take on the Kingdom building tasks God has prepared for us to be a part of in this life.
Isn't it time to receive the gift God has prepared for you long before you were ever born? Isn't it time to live out the identity God has spoken into existance for you? That identity includes all the holiness, perfection and blamelessness you will ever need to be all you can be in the eyes of this God that made you. Live you life with the knowledge that God sees you as the victor you long to be because of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Stop trying to earn that identity by all you do and let your doing be nothing more than the power of God leading you to where He has you to be today.
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