A Definition of Sanctification 6/10 Wednesday Wisdom

Many of us are called, but we are never separated [sanctified].  That separation [sanctification] is a threefold thing:

First, the New Creation separates us from the old life.  Second, as the Word is built into us, we are separated unto Christ.  First, there is a separation from the world; now there is a separation unto the Master.  Jesus becomes the Lord of our lives.  His Word dominates us.  And thridly, in our walk then there comes our own choice in which we separate ourselves from that which is not sinful in itself but is unnecessary, and this separation continues year after year, until the world has lost its dominion over us.
We are giving up good things for the best.  We are learning to walk in the fulness of His fellowship.

-- E.W. Kenyon