Sanctification

If I were to take a test on my Biblical knowledge, I don't know if I would pass. In my early years, I was never the kid who memorized the most verses(except 5 minutes before Sunday school started just to get the candy), or was the star player in "Bible Jeopardy", or the kid with the right answers to the questions. I was the kid who thought I could answer everything with a very vague answer that had "God" in it somewhere. I was the kid that put on the "church mask" on Sunday, and by the time I got to the parking lot, the mask had already been ripped of. And I wish I could have done differently.

Please don't read this and think that I want or need sympathy, I'm just telling you how and who I was. So this morning when I read the word "sanctification," I realized that I didn't have that definition memorized from Wednesday night youth group. But today I realized how powerful that word really is.

In Oswald Chambers devotional "My Utmost For His Highest," he first asked me the question of "are[you] prepared to measure up to what that really means?... Are you prepared to pay the cost of sanctification?" I didn't have an answer.

Chambers writes sanctification means "to secure and to keep all the strength of our body, soul, and spirit for God's purpose alone." So now that I know what sanctification means, I know that I am not prepared for it. I wish I was but I'm trying to prepare daily. I'm haven't been doing well lately with being consistent, but I am refocusing.

Are you prepared to pay the cost of sanctification? I know I'm not, but care to join me in preparing?

I pray that you and I will continue the fight to prepare daily and to stand strong against everything that tells us not too. Stay strong.

G