Perfecting Factor

God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Hebrew 11:40

Over times and years, God has continued to deal with men. Many have walked with Him and the records of their walk are examples for people of today to follow. Men like Abel, Enoch, Abraham the friend of God and father of faith, Moses the great leader of the people and prophet of God, Rehab, David the man after God’s heart, Gideon the mighty man of valor, Samson the man of strength, and Samuel the great prophet and leader of all time. The bible has a record of their great exploits wrought by them with the instrument of their faith, they subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouth of loins, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong and put the army of the enemies at flight.
These are a chronicle of exploits and great courage; yet the record has it that these men could not attain perfection, had good report but received not the promise. They broke records ever set yet could not attain perfection no wonder the bible said that the greatest of them is less than John the Baptist who is the least in the kingdom of God.
These men without us could not be made perfect, so we are their perfection. We brought perfection into the exploits their wrought, we are the perfecting factor. The New Testament believers are the perfecting factor, the mark up factor to attaining perfection. What a grace and blessing.