Pointing Fingers

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So we go on now, Paul says (8:31-39), through these processes being fulfilled in us under the cloak of human pressures. We are being
conformed marvelously through predestination, justification, even to present glorification (8:29-30). There is a glory even in our attitudes and on our faces, which really glow like Moses’ as he came down from the Mount, and others see it. And in this transforming process we are bold. We take ourselves to be blameless as God’s chosen ones. We neither live in false self-condemnation (8:1), nor are we disturbed by the pointing
finger of others: certainly not of the world, but also not of our brethren.

We all need to learn plenty about not pointing fingers at our brothers in Christ, when we may think they don’t measure up. See Christ in our
brothers, and leave the Great Transformer to get on with His transforming work in them as in us. Where anything does disturb us, let
our contribution be faith in God-inaction in our brother (8:31, 33-34). We need a new quality of boldness, both about who we now are— walking Christs in place of walking Satans—and of saying—and seeing the same in faith of our Christ indwelt brethren!