Life Ministries

    It is when we begin to understand these words that we can apply them and accept them. Now let's look at the other one, “blameless”.  Most people refuse to think of themselves as blameless because they know that they have done many things for which they ought to be blamed. That is, they have made choices, deliberate choices, against light, and against right, against God, and even against knowledge of the consequenses. But we confuse this word with another, because it is not sinless. Never having done anything wrong is sinless… But, the Bible says you can be sinful and still be blameless.

    How?  By handling your sin in the right way…and only through Christ. If you did something that injured someone else, and the full result of it was not visible to you when you did it, but afterward you saw how much you had hurt the person, and you acknowledged it, apologized to them, asked for forgiveness, and did what you could to restore it, then there would be nothing further you could do… And from that point on you would be blameless. You would not be sinless -- you still did it -- but you also did all you could to handle it rightly, or to make it right.
    The idea is the same with our offenses against God. What can you do about your sins? You can't go back and straighten it all out, no, but you can ask for and accept his forgiveness. You can acknowledge what you did, and your need for forgiveness, you seek to restore the rela-tionship, and when you've done that, you're blameless! And that is what God has chosen us to do -- to learn this wonderful process of being whole and blameless.
    Notice that these things are to be reckoned true even though we don't feel that way. We need to accept the fact that God chose us “in Christ” to make us holy and blameless. And as we walk before him in his prescribed way, that is what we are… we ought to “reckon” that we are, and we ought to rejoice in that great fact. Now look at the second great aspect which is recorded of the work of the Father, and which is related to the first, (Ephesians 1:5-6 )
    Here is a partial explanation of how God takes care of all the past failures and the shame of our lives, in order to produce someone who is holy and blameless. It is by means of a “change” of family relationship. "He predestined us to be sons," …We are familiar with the process of adoption. Adoption means leaving one family and joining another. Leaving behind all that was involved in the first family and assuming the name, the characteristics, the resources, and the relationships of another family. We've been transferred and adopted into a new family.
    Now, my question is: Are you enjoying your inheritance? Do you wake in the morning and remind yourself at the beginning of the day, "I'm a child of the Father…El Elyon…the Most High God"…I've been chosen by him to be a member of his family. Because He chose me, He imparts to me His peace, His joy, and, His love…and much more…they are my inheritance from which I can draw every moment of life. And I have them no matter what my circumstances may be."… In His sight - through Jesus Christ His Son - I am holy and blameless!”