52 Week Bible Reading Plan

Traditional (Leviticus 16-18)

Chronological (Exodus 35-39)

1 Thessalonian 5:23-24

  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

  When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses?  We take the term sanctification much to lightly.  Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost?  It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interest on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interest in God.  Sanctification means intense concentration on God's point of view.  It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God's purpose only.  Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for?  Adn then after His work is done in us are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did?  "And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." (John 17:19) The reason some of us have not entered into the experience of sanctification is that we have not realized the meaning of sanctification from God's standpoint.  Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us.  Are we prepared for what that will cost?  It will cost everything that not of God in us. 

  Are we prepared to be caught up into the swing of this prayer of the apostle Paul's ? Are prepared to say -- "Lord, make me as holy as you can make a sinner saved by grace?"  Jesus has prayed that we might be one with Him as He is one with the Father.