Please know that I have NO IDEA about all this- I could (and should?) just Google it and learn about it and be done with it - but it's much more rewarding to wait on the Holy Spirit to teach me - so I wait.
What I have learned between yesterday and today is that I still have no idea what it means to be sanctified. I'm going to post the second half of Oswald Chamber's "Sanctification" devotional (it appears to have been a two-day, two-part, series.) In it I learned that "Sanctification is "Christ in you."" - so I'd like to apply that to my situation (because it's all about me, of course! :)). --> I think what this means is that I was actually "sanctified" on January 2nd- the day that I felt the Holy Spirit empty me of me and fill me with Him.
What do you think? Does that sound right? Obviously this "filling my empty soul with the love and magnificence of God" deal wasn't a one-time thing.... but that day- January 2nd - was the first time that I was aware of it [in a bigger-than-life, snot-and-slobber-and-cry-all-over-myself way!]!
Also- I think it's important to note that I believe this experience was a result of me finally "surrendering" to the Lord. I think that all the work He did to remove distractions from my life and to leave me with nothing but Him ... that was all groundwork for when He called me to FINALLY trust Him with EVERYTHING. <-- Yep - I think this is how it went down! Good to know!
* Check out my blog in another few months - maybe it will have changed- maybe I will have more clarification. As I say...I'm a "work in progress".... God is changing me- refining me- pruning me- breaking me- EVERYDAY <--that I let Him...that I surrender to Him... that I let Him (the ruler of the UNIVERSE) rule my little piddly life.
Aaaaaanywhoot- I am just writing today to (a.) tell you that I have no idea what I'm talking about and (b.) to share the second half of this "Sanctification" devo.
Loves!!!
SANCTIFICATION
Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
us ... sanctification. - 1 Corinthians 1:30
The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections
of Jesus Christ are imparted to me, not gradually, but instantly when
by faith I enter into the realization that Jesus Christ is made unto
me sanctification. Sanctification does not mean anything less than
the holiness of Jesus being made mine manifestly.
The one marvellous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus,
but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my
mortal flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you." It is His wonderful
life that is imparted to me in sanctification, and 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?
Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus
Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His
purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every
sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power
to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested
in Him, and He manifests it in me. Sanctification is an impartation,
not an imitation. Imitation is on a different line. In Jesus Christ
is the perfection of everything, and the mystery of sanctification is
that all the perfections of Jesus are at my disposal, and slowly and
surely I begin to live a life of ineffable order and sanity and
holiness: "Kept by the power of God."
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