— My Utmost For His Highest for 10/20/2012
This is the will of God, even your sanctification. — 1 Thessalonians 4:3
It is not a question of whether God is willing to
sanctify me; is it my will? Am I willing to let God do in me
all that has been made possible by the Atonement? Am I willing to let Jesus be
made sanctification to me, and to let the life of Jesus be manifested in my
mortal flesh? Beware of saying - Oh, I am longing to be sanctified. You are
not, stop longing and make it a matter of transaction - "Nothing in my
hands I bring." Receive Jesus Christ to be made sanctification to you in
implicit faith, and the great marvel of the Atonement of Jesus will be made
real in you. All that Jesus made possible is made mine by the free loving gift
of God on the ground of what He performed, my attitude as a saved and
sanctified soul is that of profound humble holiness (there is no such thing as
proud holiness), a holiness based on agonizing repentance and a sense of
unspeakable shame and degradation; and also on the amazing realization that the
love of God commended itse! lf to me in that while I cared nothing about Him,
He completed everything for my salvation and sanctification (see Rom. 5:8.
R.V.). No wonder Paul says nothing is "able to separate us from the love
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and
in Him one with God, and it is done only through the superb Atonement of
Christ. Never put the effect as the cause. The effect in me is obedience and
service and prayer, and is the out come of speechless thanks and adoration for
the marvellous sanctification wrought out in me because of the Atonement.
by
Oswald Chambers
No comments:
Post a Comment