Saturday, August 22, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What does holiness look like?
True sanctification then does not consist in talk about religion.
True sanctification does not consist in temporary religious feelings.
True sanctification does not consist in outward formalism and external devoutness.
Sanctification does not consist in retirement from our place in life, and the renunciation of our social duties.
Sanctification does not consist in the occasional performance of right actions. (p. 32)
Genuine sanctification will show itself in habitual respect to God’s law, and habitual effort to live in obedience to it as the rule of life.
Genuine sanctification will show itself in an habitual endeavour to do Christ’s will, and to live by His practical precepts.
Genuine sanctification will show itself in an habitual desire to live up to the standard which St. Paul sets before the churches in his writings.
Genuine sanctification will show itself in habitual attention to the active graces which our Lord so beautifully exemplified, and especially to the grace of charity.
Genuine sanctification, in the last place, will show itself in habitual attention to the passive graces of Christianity.
- J.C. Ryle
2 comments:
So very powerful!
God help me to never be ashamed of my Lord Jesus Christ; nor have Him be ashamed of me!
Praise be to the matchless, changeless name of Jesus.
Praise God that He does not leave it up to us to save ourselves. He saves us by his divine sovereign mercy and grace, so that He alone can receive the glory. As Paul has declared, where then is boasting? Praise God it is excluded. All Glory to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
Bro Pat
Post a Comment