Sanctification

Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long. Ps. 25:4-5, NIV

In the conversation about sanctification, one thing is often not mentioned. While we talk about the results of our sanctification in making us more like Christ and how Jesus is our Sanctifier as much as He is our Savior, we neglect to recognize or acknowledge that we often don’t like the vessel Jesus uses to sanctify us. Consistently, He’ll use someone or circumstances that are not what we want Him to use or how we would like to be sanctified. This in itself is part of His sanctifying process within us!

Part of this whole journey of the Christ-life within us (sometimes called the "Deeper Life") is our submitting consciously to Jesus daily in moment by moment obedience. Obedience requires entrusting ourselves to Jesus, knowing that He is all knowing- that He knows where He is taking us and how to get us there. In short, it means we give up control of our lives to Him. It is an intentional humbling of ourselves with the attitude that David expresses so beautifully in Ps. 25 (above). We ask to know His ways because His ways are higher than our ways and we ask Him to teach us His paths because our vision for our own lives is much too small compared to what He intends for us as His children. After all, if we trust Him for salvation, we can trust Him for sanctification- even if it includes crises at points, because these times show us that we only have hope in Jesus. 

On this sanctification journey with Jesus with you,

Pastor Andy

Please read Philippians 1:27-30 for Sunday. 

Questions for Reflection and Discussion:

• Pause to take a moment to look back over your life. What were some of the times that you grew the most in your relationship with Jesus? What was happening? What was He teaching you? How did it deepen your faith?
• What is Jesus currently using in your life to grow you in holiness, in your sanctification, of being set apart unto Him for His use? How can you apply Paul’s attitude from Phil. 1:18-26 toward this time?

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