the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
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." - Philippians 1:6.
He is not as one who begins to build without having counted the cost. Not as a sculptor who begins to execute a work without having ascertained the impracticable nature of his material. These are the shameful mistakes of men. God is not a workman that will need to be ashamed. He has called together a goodly company of the nobility of heaven to look on, while he brings a holy creature out of your unholy nature. Will he lay down his implements and say, " I miscalculated?"
They that know that a good work has been begun in them, are entitled to entertain an unwavering confidence that it will proceed until the day of Christ, when the believer shall be presented unblemished, spotless, perfect, before the throne. It proceeds until that day. It is not begun, relinquished, begun again, and again relinquished, but is performed until the day of Christ. So you have not to go to the past to know if a good work has been begun; it exists within you now. The work goes on. God is busied with you, and in you, while you live. From your first perception of Christ crucified, to your presentation before the Lord of glory, you are wrought upon by the creative power of God.
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