Pastor’s Blog – Bunker Hill Community Church

In 1 Thessalonians 5:23 we read,

“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

God wants us to be holy—every part of us.

Paul says that God will preserve our spirit and soul and body blameless until the coming of Christ. That means that He wants to make every part of us, both inward and outward, without sin.  God wants to make our lives look like Jesus Christ.

Many will argue that since we are not Christ, then we cannot really become like Him who “was without sin.”  And they are completely right, if we only take into account what we can do by our own will and strength.

But the key to becoming blameless is found in the next verse:

(24)  Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.”

There is no way that we can make ourselves holy, and that is okay, because God has not asked us to try.  He says that HE is the one who will make us blameless. If he has called us to be holy and blameless, then only He can MAKE us holy and blameless in His sight.

Blamelessness is not the result of trying harder to be good; blamelessness is the result of submitting ourselves totally to what God wants to do in us.  The question is ARE WE LETTING HIM DO HIS WORK IN US?

Have you ever stood outside and looked at the stars in amazement as to how many there are?

What is even more amazing is that what we can see from earth, even with a telescope, is just a fraction of the total number of stars out there.

Scientists tell us that they estimate there to be about 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and they think there could be as many as 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each with just as many stars or more.

Psalm 145:4 says,

“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.”

God not only knows exactly how many stars there are, but He knows each one by its name. That means that he knows each star perfectly because, after all, He did create each one.

If God knows the stars that intimately, think about how He knows each one of us, not just as another person on earth, but by our name.

In Psalm 139:17-18, the psalmist proclaims,

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”

God is thinking about us all the time! How comforting it is to know that the God who created and named all the stars of the universe cares intimately about each one of us.