The Sanctifying Way
My friend and I have this saying when something seems hard or God is teaching us some new spiritual lesson. When we are not sure what is around the next bend and it would be easier to back up or go a different direction.
“There is just no other way,” we say with a smile.
It reminds us that if we had the choice…to go another way…we probably wouldn’t.
I can remember in seventh grade when I really became serious about my faith. I never knew a time when Jesus wasn’t a part of our lives but at that moment in my life, I decided to make this faith thing my own. This experience of justifying grace began a journey that has brought me to this place in this time.
That is what sanctifying grace or sanctification is all about. As we travel closer to God even the way we live changes as well. Sometimes we don’t even notice that God is gently helping us become more like Jesus.
The Kings in the Nativity story had a way about them. They studied prophecies and stars at night…watching the light of a new star. And when they saw it…their travels began.
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