The Struggle of Transformation

 Job 15; Acts 19-20 

“…Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you day and night with tears. Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”

Acts 20:31, 32

Paul’s discipleship of the Ephesian Church and the many followers of Christ throughout Asia was focused on their sanctification into an inheritance which was eternal. This was so strategic and essential to Paul that for three years, day and night and with tears in his eyes, he never stopped warning these believers and equipping them to take their stand against the devil’s schemes (Ephesians 6:10-12).

Are we focused on sanctification with the same intensity that Paul had?

Paul was confident in the word of God’s grace, not the word of rules or human effort, to accomplish this sanctification. Both Paul’s personal engagement and his release of these disciples to God were essential. The establishment of believers in new faith as well as prayer for them will build them up in faith, hope, and love. We, too, are in a battle for purity, faith, and our inheritance. This struggle requires us to daily listen to the Word of grace.

“Lord Jesus you are the Word of grace to me. This day, you are my strength, for your glory.”