On this side of the grave you will never arrive when it comes to your walk with Christ! Though we are saved by grace, nevertheless Scripture speaks of our life in Christ as something that is being worked out.
1 Timothy 6:12, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”
Paul uses the boxing match as a metaphor of the calling of the believer! As such Christianity is not about arriving; it is about competing. Paul further exhorts, “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12).
Truly salvation (which includes such things as sanctification and glorification) is not something we have as a package when we first believe in Christ. Salvation is something that God works out and in us over time! From this we conclude that when a person comes to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ they do not arrive. Rather they begin a race which will last for all eternity!
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