The Devotional - 096 - Sanctified, what's that

A Thought for the Day – 096 – Sanctified, what’s that

 

Proverbs 24:13 -14 – In our day we eat a lot of chocolate and in Solomon’s it was honey. But it is not what enters the belly and sweet to the taste that is important since it will be eliminated. Knowledge and wisdom of God is sweet to the soul, also causing confidence since it will be retained.

 

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With so many spell checkers, we still manage to misspell a word now and then and it gets by. Which word was that? It was the subject for today… SANCTIFYING or better Sanctification! This in fact is what Solomon leads us to this morning in Proverbs 24:13-14. All too often we want the sweet things of life; you know, a good job, a good husband or wife, good children, a good neighborhood and on and on it goes. Even to the point of identifying ourselves as Mr. and Mrs. Goody, from Goodyville USA.

There are many temporal problems with this sort of mindset and if you have been on the planet long enough… you like me know firsthand knowledge that life under the sun is full of labor and disappointment. Now hang on because here is another one of those statements that may need qualification. There are two avenues to live life. One: Under the sun, or Two: Above the sun. Solomon has a lot to say about this in his book Ecclesiastes (The Preacher). But within these two avenues of life there are those modifications to make labor easy and disappointment less.

Living in this world without our Creator God as one’s foundation is full of labor and disappointment, it is for the most part handled by these folks as fate. Fate is often modified with religious do’s and don’ts, but there are those who even reject religion and just accept life as it comes, one disappointing or labor intense event after another until life is over.

Then there is the other modifier; the person who accepts that they are created by Creator God, but and because of labor and disappointment fail to handle life according to the knowledge of God that is available to them through His Word. These too fall into religious practices of do’s and don’ts. Both groups are basically the general public in the world around us. Guess what? We are or were a player in one of those groups.

Now I am going to have to close soon since I am in one of those labor intensified moments in time, but and because I seek to be a good steward of my public time I need to stop for now. What we will be looking at is a third group of folks and our responsibility as believers in Jesus Christ to be sanctified in the grace and knowledge of Him. This is the lifelong study sanctification by the Word of God, I like what the apostle Paul has to say to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:15. Sanctification is a daily process of study, approved by God.