Holiness and The Word

Holiness and The Word

“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” (John 17:17)

Every true child of God longs for the deepening Christian life.  We have God-given desires for holiness.  How important then that we should remember that the Lord Jesus Christ, about to go to the cross, looked to the Father and said: “Make them holy through Thy Word; Thy Word  is truth."  It is an amazing thing, and we realize it more and more as we come to know God’s Word, that almost all God does in this world today, he does through the instrumentality of His Word.  It follows that if we expect to secure blessings from God, we must receive them in the way that He planned to give them to us, and though we may find holiness in many ways in the Bible, we shall not find it apart from the Bible.

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17).  Hearing is, of course, a biblical term for obedience, that takes truth to heart and submits self to its rule.  A carnal Christian may listen to all the preaching available, but if there is no yielding to it, there will be no blessing.

Meditation: Am I obeying the Word so I can be sanctified by the Word?

Further Reading: John 17:13-21