{"id":469852,"date":"2025-02-08T02:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=469852"},"modified":"2025-02-08T02:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:32:38","slug":"one-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/one-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"One with Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-076fc35e65f2509ef2e83cfd79e36d81\"><strong>May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. \u2014 1 Thessalonians 5:23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we pray to be sanctified, are we praying for the standard Paul sets here\u2014the \u201cthrough and through\u201d? We take the term sanctification much too superficially. Sanctification means an intense narrowing of our earthly interests and an immense broadening of our interests in God. It means an intense concentration on God\u2019s point of view\u2014every power of body, soul, and spirit bound and kept for him. Are we prepared to let God do his work in us? And when his work is done, are we prepared to set ourselves apart, as Jesus set himself apart?<br>God wants us to be sanctified entirely. The reason some of us haven\u2019t entered into the experience of entire sanctification is that we haven\u2019t understood the meaning of it from God\u2019s viewpoint: \u201cFor them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified\u201d (John 17:19). Sanctification means being made one with Jesus, so that the mindset which ruled him will also rule us. Are we prepared for what that will cost? It will cost everything that is not of God in us.<br>To be caught up in the swing of Paul\u2019s prayer, the \u201cthrough and through,\u201d means asking God to make us as holy as he can make sinners saved by grace. Jesus prayed that we might be one with him as he is one with the Father (v. 21). The sanctified soul has one defining characteristic: a strong family resemblance to Jesus, a freedom from everything that doesn\u2019t resemble him. Are we prepared to embrace this freedom by setting ourselves apart? Will we agree to let Jesus make us one with him, as he is one with the Father?<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. \u2014 1 Thessalonians 5:23 When we pray to be sanctified, are we praying for the standard Paul sets here\u2014the \u201cthrough and through\u201d? We take the term sanctification much too superficially. Sanctification means an intense narrowing of our earthly interests and an immense broadening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}