day no. 15,217: perfect and in process

"He either saves us once for all or not at all" - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour

Jesus saves... or He doesn't. If He saves, He saves all of you all at once. If He doesn't, there is no good in trying to imagine parts of you being saved while others remain unsaved or all of you being mostly saved with some work left for you to do.

If Jesus does not save us completely, we are completely damned.

If Jesus saves us only in part, all of our parts are in peril.

For the sake of a sinful eye, the entire body will be sent to hell.

Matthew 18:9

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

For the sake of His single sacrifice, the entire person is perfected and in process.

Hebrews 10:14
By a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

You do not have to be perfect right now in practical reality in order to be pronounced perfect in His sight by His sacrifice. But all those who are, in fact, pronounced "perfect" are, in fact, in process.

Everything is going somewhere... and sooner or later it's going to get there.