Scripture sometimes goes in one ear, and out the other.
Sometimes, I lose concentration on why I am here in this world, and for whom I'm living this life for?
Christ warns against this in Luke 21:34
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation,
drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on
you unexpectedly like a trap." (NIV)
The day He was talking about was the day He's coming back to save us all. I know i don't want that day to sneak up on me. I know that i must live that day, and everyday sanctified.
Our lives must be of sanctification or they will become those that fall victim to the world's process of dissipation.
The process of sanctification comes when we draw near to Christ, when we seek and fall at His feet.
Chambers wrote in My Utmost for His Highest:
"We take the term sanctification too lightly, are we
prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost
an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth,
and an immense broadening of all our interests in God...
It means every power of body, soul, and spirit chained and
kept for God's purpose only." (Feb 8th devotional)
Sanctification is something we can't take lightly. If we do, if we lose purpose as we draw ourselves close to God, and He draws us closer to Him, we fall victim to sin, to hardened hearts, and our minds become consumed with the worldly.
My prayer for you comes out of 1 Thessalonians in chapter 5 verse 23:
"May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through
and through."
Do not fall victim to the world's weight and the devils temptation. Keep yours eyes on Him, and become sanctified, so when that awaited day comes we will be ready.
With love,
Jenny
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