Gold Nugget 228 - The Embryo of Character

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      “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect.”

      What is the perfection?  No being is absolutely perfect but God; fallibility belongs to all rational creatureship.  The perfection consists in the ruling principle of action, and that is supreme sympathy with the supremely Good.  This is a thing perfect in itself; it can be strengthened, but is incapable of any modification.  The perfection is, therefore, that of the embryo of character. 

      The acorn is perfect as an acorn, not as an oak; the babe is perfect as a babe, not as a man; the dawn is perfect as a dawn, not as a noon.  There is incompletion in development, but completion in the rudimental element.  All Christians have this or they are not Christians. …          Hence Paul speaks of “pressing towards the mark,” of “walking by the same rule.”  The germinal principle is essentially growable. 

      All life struggles for advancement.  The acorn struggles to rise into majestic forest, infants into men, the unfledged eagle to soar into the heavens and to bask itself in sunny azure. 

The Pulpit Commentary, Philippians p. 145, Philippians 3:15-17, (D. Thomas)

Gold Nugget 228

They Embryo of Character

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