Oswald Chamber's Devotional

I was reading this and it was as awesome reminder of how magnificent and gracious Jesus is to us. I don't know that we deserve it but His mercy and desire to be close to us is truly a wonderful gift from God


July 23rd.
SANCTIFICATION
"Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us . . . sanctification." 1 Corinthians 1:30
The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me, not gradually, but instantly when by faith I enter into the realization that Jesus Christ is made unto me sanctification. Sanctification does not mean anything less than the holiness of Jesus being made mine manifestly.
The one marvellous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my mortal flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you." It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification, and imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God's grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His word?
Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is on a different line. In Jesus Christ is the perfection of everything, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfections of Jesus are at my disposal, and slowly and surely I begin to live a life of ineffable order and sanity and holiness: "Kept by the power of God."

Shalom

-Erik-

Encouragement

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT: Romans 8:38-39

I am convinced that nothing can ever seperate us from God's love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us.
We can't be seperated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything int he present or anything in the future, by forces in the world above or in the world below or by anything else in creation.

The love God has for each of us is so intense that there is not a single source of division grand enough which even attempts to approach it. God is our source of hope, life and love and as Isaiah states: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. When you cross rivers, you will not drown and yet even when you pass thought fire, the flames will not harm you, BECAUSE I AM, THE HOLY ONE, YOUR GOD.

How wonderful to know this. Thanks and praise be to God.

Shalom

E