0030. Sanctification God's Will

Sanctification God’s Will

"For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication" (1Th_4:3).

Above all things else, we should desire to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Jesus Christ, on one occasion said, "Who is My mother, or My brethren? * * whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in Heaven".

If you want to hold a place as near to the heart of Christ as that of His mother, or brother or sister, you must live in the center of God’s will.

When we read, therefore, that "this is the will of God, even your sanctification", we should immediately seek to stand complete in that will.

When you enter college, there are certain studies which are marked "optional." You must have so many units for graduation, but it is optional as to the studies you take to secure these units.

God, however, has never written the word "optional" over sanctification. The believer who is not sanctified, is not in the center of God’s will; he is falling short of God’s purpose.

We know very well that man has used the word "sanctify" and "sanctification" to suggest extreme and other unscriptural conditions, but that does not alter the fact that true Scriptural sanctification is the will of God.

Sanctification shall be mine;

It is God’s holy will, Divine;

And the enabling is of God,

Who sanctifieth by His Word.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR