Daily Devotions by a dead guy

The devo I read today by Oswald Chambers.

INSTANTANEOUS AND INSISTENT SANCTIFICATION

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth, and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. Sanctification means intense concentration on God's point of view. It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God's purpose only. Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for? And then after His work is done in us, are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did? "For their sakes I sanctify Myself." The reason some of us have not entered into the experience of sanctification is that we have not realized the meaning of sanctification from God's standpoint. Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. Are we prepared for what that will cost? It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

Are we prepared to be caught up into the swing of this prayer of the apostle Paul's? Are we prepared to say - "Lord, make me as holy as You can make a sinner saved by grace"? Jesus has prayed that we might be one with Him as He is one with the Father. The one and only characteristic of the Holy Ghost in a man is a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, and freedom from everything that is unlike Him. Are we prepared to set ourselves apart for the Holy Spirit's ministrations in us?

Funny!

I tortured my band recycling this joke all last weekend :)

Sometimes I don't get it.

The other day I brought my daughter Isa to Wal-mart to get some stuff and things. Walking through the busy parking lot she struggled to get out of the grip I had on her hand. As she attempted to pull away my hand gripped harder because of the cars coming around the corner. As a waist high two year old she couldn't see the danger ahead and didn't seem to understand why I wouldn't want her to run away from me into what looked to her like a safe parking lot. In a flash I thought back on my own discontentment, frustration and doubt. I quickly thanked God for holding me back from what I thought was good for me at the time. I was reminded of His protection over me and that I just need to trust that He knows what is ahead.