Sanctified In Truth

 

^{John 17: 11b-19}

^{That They May Be One}

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. ¹² While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Sanctified in truth, made holy in truth.  Don't we want that for ourselves, for our families, for our best friends? Our "job" here on earth is to become holy..."Be holy as your heavenly Father is holy"  What is "holy"?  It is being fully who God made us to be, stripped of all selfishness, pride and fear. It is doing what God asks of us, even when it hurts;  it is being at the service of others despite the cost to ourselves. It is living in harmony with God and one another. It is being authentically who we are. It is being the face and heart of Jesus. As such, then we may be one with Jesus and the Father, as the Holy Spirit works in us to make this happen.  What a calling! It is the prayer of Jesus for us.  How blessed we are!

Bro. Rene