Word Is Truth
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Word Is Truth
Sanctify them—If you read the Word of God clearly, God, again and again gives clear instruction about sanctifying people. When He was descending on the mountain to meet with the people of Israel, God told Moses to sanctify them before assembling them before Him.
Even when He was about to meet him, He asked him to remove the sandal he was wearing, for it was not clean.
Cleanliness, sanctification, holiness—these are all pre-requisite to meet with God
A perfect sanctification happens when you cleanse yourself with the Blood of Christ. John 1:7 says, “His Son’s Precious Blood cleanseth us from all sin.”
The Psalmist, when he had made a serious sin against God and his own neighbor, asked God to clean him. We need cleansing, constant cleansing. We are only weak and fragile.”I’m a potter, you are a vessel.” Of course, we are fragile, weak, we commit sins. All that God is asking is cleanse before you ask of Him for a blessing.
Sanctityti is a must. God cannot bear, for He is full of holiness, in its perfection possible. You can’t even imagine how that will feel like. You will faint at the imagination of this description, what I am explaining.
Sanctify them in the truth—yes, “in the truth.”
When we put ourselves in the truth, Truth is Christ, Truth is Word, Truth is God’s—and only that cleanses us.
We need to check our actions, our words, our behaviors, our commitment in the Light of the Gospel, whether we are doing right or ok.
If we have a good conscience, clear conscience, cleansed by the Precious Blood, it would tell whether we are in adherence with the Truth or not.
John goes on further and says, “Your Word is truth.” Yes, God’s Word alone is the truth. There is nothing second to it. Only that is the dictum. We need to follow, abide by, practice. Even if you fail, God is there with His infinite mercy to empower, wipe us, like a mother who a million times changes the diaper of a child even if it does knowingly or unknowingly, even for fun.
“Mother might forget to nurse the child, will I ever…?” That’s how God asks. He is more than everybody, everything else.
And that Love and Truth you should bow before, and to have a communion and fellowship with that Truth, to abide by that Truth, we need to keep ourselves sanctified as much as we can, before we enter His Temple, His Arena.
Abba, we are unclean. Peter, even the greatest of prophets also said, “Go away from me, Lord, I am only unclean. I am sinful, unclean.” But You can cleanse us. Let Your Spirit give us those areas that we need to surrender for Christ, by Your Son’s Precious Blood that wipes away every dirt and makes it pure, white as wool, or morning dew of sun, or snow. In Jesus’ Most Powerful Name, Amen.