The Whole Truth About Wholeness

UV 3302/10000 The Whole Truth About Wholeness

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through ( that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and undamaged-consecrated to Him- set apart for His purpose); and may your spirit, soul and body be kept complete and be found blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I Thessalonians 5 v 23

We are not spectators in the divinely initiated and ordained process of sanctification in Christ. Christ is our target model whom we should match and merge with. He is the Gold Standard, the Benchmark of Heaven. The Holy Spirit brings us up to speed in the matter of refining our human nature to become the divine nature of Christ. We are to be separated from our former way of thinking, speaking and doing things. We are to put a distance between our past and our present. We are then to be willing and enthusiastic participants in the sanctification process. The Lord helps to heal the damaged parts of our lives. He restores us to the pristine purity that we were created to be. Only then can we fulfill the purpose for which we were both created and redeemed. The Triune God ( Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is the One who is the chief agency or person involved in refining us. Scripture says that He sits like a refiner over us. He does it through the presence of the Holy Spirit, through the mirror-like accuracy of the truth of the scripture and through our various life experiences of His grace and mercy. Every day when we look into the “scripture mirror” or the Word, we should ask ourselves what aspect of our mind or personality, habits or speech, thinking, acting or reacting, relating or behaving needs to change in the light of the Word the Lord used to speak to us.

Having found an answer from the Holy Spirit about what aspects we need to change or refine for the day and the rest of our lives, we should then seek His grace and help and go ahead and do it. At the end of the day and several times during the day, we should review in our minds, whether we are doing it and doing it right. The Holy Spirit is the Remembrancer or Reviewer who helps us review ourselves impartially and dispassionately against the bench mark the Lord has set for us. If we fail or do not succeed to the full extent, He will comfort us, give us the strength to rise again and do it again. Sanctification is the process, then of moving from hearing to “heart-ing” to doing to being. When we do it again and again, it becomes our second nature, our divine nature and the core of our being.

The emphasis of the uni-verse is that the Lord aims that we be “whole” again. We are “repaired” or paired again with the Spirit of God to be God-like. We are no longer broken, incomplete, unfulfilled. Our whole being is completed in Him, our spirit, mind and body are made whole, complete, perfected, mature, fruitful, blameless. The word “ impeccable” means that the enemy of our souls can no longer peck at us. He no longer rules over us by weakening, dividing, setting us against ourselves like an ‘inner civil war”. The God of peace gives us complete peace and victory over the world and the machinations and accusations of the enemy.