Steadfast On Our Journey of Sanctification

1 Corinthians 1:30

God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.

Without Jesus Christ in our lives, we are depraved and corrupt.  With the regenerating grace of God through His Son, Jesus, we are benefactors of the redemptive process.  We are freed from sin and made pure and holy in the eyes of Almighty God.  Through this salvation process, we receive all the fullness of the treasures of heaven so that we are fit for the service to which we have been called. 

Are we willing for God to make sanctification as real in us as it is in His Son, Jesus?  The sanctification process begins with submission.  The submission process begins when we humbly receive Jesus Christ as Our Redeemer.  Our sanctification begins immediately upon our submission to Our Savior.  The sanctification process flourishes as we deny ourselves and rely entirely on Jesus to release His holiness in our lives.  The sanctification process continues until the day we stand before the Lord in the fullness of our completed holiness.

Sanctification is impossible in our flesh alone.  It is only possible with the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit in full operation in our lives.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we access all the perfections of Jesus.  As long as we remain surrendered to Our Savior and seek the ongoing work of His Holy Spirit in our lives, we will begin to live a life of holiness on this earth.  It will not be uninterrupted holiness like we will experience in our glorified bodies, but it will be a steady and it will be pleasing to the One who is calling us to our eternal place of glory.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for taking us from the corruption of our old man into a condition of holiness in our new man in Christ.  We worship You and bless Your name from the fount of holiness that Our Savior has created within us.  We pray that we will receive the grace that we need to remain steadfast on our journey of sanctification.  We seek to have our journey become a living testimony to those who you have placed in our lives.  We pray for the wisdom and the courage to share our sanctification story with the flock that you have given us.  We ask all these things in the name of the Holy One of God, Jesus Christ.