“Sanctification is the Holy Spirit’s work of retraining the human heart to choose a different set of values.”
TEXT:
Chapter 9, Page 89 –
Steward, look around you. Look at who is nearest and dearest to you – your blood family and your church family. Look at where you live, what you have in your house, what you drive, what you earn. Look at the people in your neighborhood and where you work. Look at your recreational toys and your hobbies. Look at all your time, all your talents, all your finances, all your “stuff.”
You don’t own any of these things. You are a steward for God.
What has God given you to manage for him?
Do you trust God?
Do you know who you are?
This particular topic always stops me in my tracks. More than any other, this metaphorical concept of being a steward makes me discover just how worldly is my mind-set. I say “discover” because although I know intellectually that I am a steward, a manager for God, not an owner of anything, my human mind-set thinks and the world around me re-enforces otherwise. I have to “discover” this concept over and over again, not on my own, but with the prompting of, and under the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
Sanctification is the work of a lifetime. Sanctification is the Holy Spirit’s work of retraining the human heart to choose a different set of values, to function from a different mind-set.
