"As a gift of grace, sanctification is conferred on each believer as soon as he believes. But it is a gift yet held on deposit, 'hid with Christ in God,' to be appropriated through daily communion and gradual apprehension. So, while the believer's realized sanctification appears painfully meager, at most a thin line of light, like the crescent of the new moon, yet he sees it ever complemented by the clear outlines of that rounded wholeness which is his in the Lord Jesus, and into which he is to be daily waxing till he grows to 'the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ' (Eph. 4:13)." -A.J. Gordon
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God you whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Thess. 5:23).
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Anna, dear friend...
You are still daily in my prayers. May the Lord continue to uphold you with the right hand of His righteousness. "As we have received mercy, we faint not..."
I love you.
His,
Miriam
1 Pet. 2:1-3--through the work of the Spirit in my life, these verses are beginning to take on richer, fuller reality and depth
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