Ready and Willing?

7/23/2020

1 Corinthians 1:30 “Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us…sanctification.”

“Sanctification is, ‘Christ in you.’ It is His wonderful life that is 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?”               

                                                  ~ Oswald Chambers

Oh boy! Here we go again with Chambers shaking me right down to my DNA with his words. In the past few weeks, there have been themes of willingness and sanctification, and now Chambers is putting these two together and asking a powerful question: Am I willing to be sanctified? God will never force faith on me, but once I yield, how far am I willing to go? If I pray to be truly sanctified, am I prepared for what that would actually mean? How would my life be if this was my reality? How would I be living? I often say, “The flesh is willing but the spirit is weak,” to explain my shortcomings or failures. If I was sanctified, however, I would say, “The Spirit within me is willing and POWERFUL, but the flesh is fragile and weak.” My mortal life is but a breath, but my spirit will live forever because of my Savior. Shouldn’t the genuineness of this reality be enough to make me willing to let the Holy Spirit be absolute in me?