Once and Being

Hebrews 10

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

When I read this passage I found it interesting to note that the first part says we have been made holy once for all, but then the last part says we are being made holy. Does that sound contradictory?

I believe it’s not. 

When we come to Christ, he erases our sins forever, and sets us into right standing with God – done deal.  We don’t have to continually bring sacrifices for sins, He did it once for all.

But after that initial experience, we all know that our bodies, minds and spirits still have a long ways to go to be what anyone would call holy.  That’s the process of being made holy.

When Christ lives in us and we surrender to Him, he continually perfects us to erase and replace old attitudes, judgments, wounds, scars, etc. until we are without blemish from this world and all of the evil in it.

That’s a process.

Sin erased, and forgiven. Done deal.

Becoming like Him in word and deed, that’s a an ongoing process.

What a faithful God we serve!