We understand that sanctification is a process that begins when we are saved. But why is it a process? Why doesn’t God just make us instantaneously everything we are meant to be?
I am reminded of the court room exchange in the movie “A Few Good Men.” The young officer demands of the aged veteran officer: “I want the truth.” And he is told, “You can’t handle the truth.”
As to sanctification, we are not instantly ready for full sanctification: the cost is too great. “It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. Sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view.”
At salvation, we don’t surrender our free will, nor or we transported from the material, non-spiritual world in which we live. Although our eyes are opened when God saves us; our vision is still immature. In the process of sanctification, our interests increasingly match the interests of our God. It is a process which must move forward if we are to increasingly become the image of Christ.
How much sanctification are you prepared for? The better question may be: Are you ready for more sanctification today than you were yesterday?
Let us yield to God’s work of sanctification and let us
Be blessed.
Nick
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