The marvel that is sanctification!
Posted by appolus on October 5, 2024
The process of sanctification is monumental and entirely underrated. God takes the ashes of our lives and begins the process of making something spectacular out of them for His own will and His own good pleasure. From the depths of who we are tectonic plates begin to thrust upwards. Oceans emptying, mountains rising from the deep. Vast towering peaks, raging rivers carving out the sides of the canyons and the valleys below. Snow on top of mountains. Ice sheets building up and glaciers forming into unstoppable forces, working their way through solid granite. Plateaus and peaks and valleys in their wake. Earthquakes shaking everything that can be shaken. Volcanoes erupting and molten rivers of magma reshaping the earth. This is your life in Christ being shaped by the hand of God.
For those who are being rightly shaped, His hand never leaves us. Every circumstance and even seemingly random events all come together and work together for those who love the lord and are called according to His purposes. In the end, what the Lord creates is something magnificent. A work of art that defies words. A work that no one could have predicted when we were but a block of stone or some ashes blowing in the wind. It was His vision of you. He brought it to pass, He created it, its all His work, ours is to but yield under the hand of the creator. Most of the changes moved as slow as the glaciers. Some of the changes were like a cray bubbling volcano that erupts into seeming chaos but at the same time yield incredible destructive creative power. The flesh being torn away, the spirit rising.
Sometimes, and for long seasons, our lives are like a sailing ship on a flat calm ocean that has not even a breeze. Just sitting there, seemingly stuck, with no possibility or circumstances changing, Yet even in this, the winds of change are coming and we had no idea from what direction they would blow. The key to all of this dear brother, dear sister is to trust in the Lord who holds you i His hand, who rightly shapes you from beginning to end. When the mountains crumble, just know that He is there. When all around you is shaking and you think that this is the end, it is not, it is but a brush stoke from the Masters hand on a canvas where upon a masterpiece is taking shape. You are His work and He is faithful to complete that which He has begun. Lord we marvel at it all. If the heavens declare your glory, and they do, your work in us is even greater and unlike the heavens, is made for eternity.
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