How does God help me live blamelessly?

1 Corinthians 1:8He [God] will keep you strong to the end so that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns.

Each day we should remember what God has done for us and ask for his help and guidance as we live out that day. He is the one who gives us strength and makes us blameless in his sight.

Colossians 1:22He [God] has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

Our right relationship with God begins with—and is maintained and renewed by—what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross. In this section of his letter to the Colossians, Paul may have been confronting an idea that God would never actually take on a human body and die in the flesh. Paul knew that this wrong idea undermined God’s good news of salvation through Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13May the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows. May he, as a result, make your hearts strong, blameless, and holy as you stand before God our Father when our Lord Jesus comes again with all his holy people. Amen.

Paul is praying that these believers will increasingly live holy and blameless lives as they grow in love for one another. We must remember, however, that we can never become perfectly blameless by our own efforts. It is only through Christ’s death on the cross that our sins are forgiven and we become blameless in God’s sight.