Day 22 "Saved and Sanctified"
Beautiful Peace and Rest
Happy Lord’s Day Beauties!
Salvation and Sanctification - two vitally important truths we must fully understand to defeat the enemy and walk in freedom. Both are gifts given to us. It’s critical to know the work has already been done, and there’s nothing you need to do but simply believe and receive them.
Jesus has already saved your soul from eternal damnation on the cross. Jesus said, “It is finished.” John 19:30 (NIV)
“Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.” Ephesians 2:7-10 (MSG)
There’s absolutely nothing you can do by good works to win your salvation. Jesus freely gives it to you when you believe in His gift of grace through faith. Do you believe? What works can you lay down once and for all knowing they will not make you “good enough” to go to heaven? Selah.
“Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.” 2 Dorinthians 3:16-18 (MSG)
The Holy Spirit is working out your sanctification - making you more like Jesus every day. If you’re like me, you want to live a sinless life after all Jesus has done to save you, but it’s impossible. Allow the Spirit to convict you of your sin. When you go to the Spirit with your failings, you need only to ask His help, and He will continue to lead and guide you in the ways of the Lord. Can you identify those things that you keep trying to do better? Trying to master? Isn’t it exhausting? Selah.
Beauties, it’s time to understand God’s work and our work. Only Jesus can save our lives, and only the Holy Spirit can make us Holy, like God. Our job is to join God where’s He’s working, that place He’s called us to join Him. When we surrender our ideas of what we’re supposed to be, do, and accomplish, the peace and rest of God will invade our lives.
Let’s celebrate how God always meets us right where we are, and we meet Him with praise.
Hallelujah Even Here - Lydia Laird
Love and Blessings,
Kendra
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”