Heaven Land Devotions - The Very God of Peace Sanctify You

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When the word or term 'sanctification' is brought up, there seems to be a lot of internal consternation about it. Most all believers know what sanctification means. Yet, they feel that is an unobtainable thing. Like King David who said, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it."

Paul prayed, "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

We see there are outward things we should and must do to sanctify ourselves, and this we do. There is a responsibility to our own walk and growth in Christ. "We give attendance to the reading of God's word." We "study to show ourselves approved unto God," and "pray always." "We do good unto them when it is in the power of our hand to do it."

However there is a work of sanctification that only God can do with our entire tripartite man. Our spirit, soul and bodies. We work with God in this on our own limited part, but only He can purge and purify us because it is His spiritual work.

Listen, all of us living in this "present evil age" are polluted from it. There are things within and without that we can still detect that are leftovers from a sinful life. No amount of trying to do things can purify spiritual deformities and abnormalities expressed in the spirit, soul and body. There are ways we still process life, things and habits we do, and even words we speak and think that are not yet sanctified by God.

I think of what Paul said in his older age: "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13.

How I see it is the forgetting those things that are behind, is also a leaving them too. It is a daily leaving this world slowly day by day to go to heaven. Let God the God of Peace sanctify you wholly, spirit, soul and body. He will preserve you blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus.

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live." Can you say that? Are you prepared to let God sanctify you? There is no other way.....there is no other life. His life living in you. The God of peace, ruling and reigning in your heart by One Jesus Christ.

"Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Remember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies." ~Charles Spurgeon