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July 18, 2022 Your Daily Bible Verse for Monday | 1 Thessalonians 5:23

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July 18, 2022 Your Daily Bible Verse for Monday | 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Read and Meditate on Today’s Daily Bible Verse of the Day 18th July 2022 – A Simple Way to Think about Sanctification. God bless you as you study!

YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSE FOR MONDAY 18 JULY 2022

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY: “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:23

A Simple Way to Think about Sanctification By David Powlison

The word sanctification is a five-syllable abstraction for the very human process of growing up and simply being and becoming human. When we think about how flourishing humanness is described in Scripture, it operates in two dimensions. One is that we learn how to walk with our Savior. A shorthand of this would be that we become increasingly childlike toward our Father whom we trust.

Then there’s a horizontal dimension, that we become increasingly like our Savior. In a whole variety of ways—how we talk with people, what our priorities are, what choices we make, how we approach money, relationships, and decision making—we actually become helpful to others.

I like that shorthand: childlike toward our Father and helpful toward other people.

The 3 Tenses of Sanctification

One word of clarification that’s helpful in defining sanctification is that it actually has a past tense, a present tense, and a future tense.

The Bible uses the word sanctification most often in the past tense: it says that you are a saint, that you have been made holy.

The present tense refers to our becoming holy, becoming childlike, becoming helpful—becoming both wiser in walking with and more conformed to the image of our Jesus.

And then sanctification has a future tense. On the last day when the battle is done and the race is run and we see him face to face, then we will be like him.

David Powlison (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a teacher, a counselor, and the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation. He is also the senior editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling and the author of Seeing with New Eyes, Good and Angry, and Speaking Truth in Love.

July 18, 2022 Your Daily Bible Verse for Monday

July 18, 2022 Your Daily Bible Verse for Monday | 1 Thessalonians 5:23

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