Perfect, But Not Yet Holy

REFERENCE:  Heb. 10:14-17 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.  15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says, 16 “This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." 17 Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”

Observation:  When Jesus died for us, He accomplished two things at the same time; He made us "perfect" and put into place a process that would work out holiness in us over time. It is easy to get hung up on this devine two step. We either forget that we are perfect and believe the Accuser of our souls that we are worthless crap (excuse my French--it is just term I could think of), unable to ever do anything right or we rest on our laurels and give out working with God's work to "make us holy." We are perfect--and we need to stay in the process of being made holy.
How does all happen? The rest of this passage makes it clear. We are perfect because God, the definer of truth for the whole of the universe, has declared; “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” if He doesn't, neither should we--or anyone else!
He also says: "I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." That is how He makes us holy. Holiness is not becoming what we are not but living, most deeply and really, what we are, what has been written on our hearts and minds. Now it is our deepest desire to do right. It is frustrating and labourious to do wrong. God is making us holy by changing the very nature of who we are and teaching us to simply simply live it out by His power and with the presence of His Spirit.

Application/Confession: I confess that I struggle on both ends of that spectrum. I forget that I am perfect (even the word freaks me out) in God's sight and I sometimes want to give up in the struggle to "let His holiness out".