ELUL DAY 3

POINTS TO PONDER AND CONSIDER

1. Do you ever consider why God felt it was so important to have all things involved in worship consecrated unto Him?

Do you feel the consecration of our souls is vitally important to God’s Kingdom?

2. What things about your life need to be purified and cleaned and consecrated to God?

ELUL DAY 4 MEDITATION

TRANSFORMATION – LIVING IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD

WE ALL STILL SIN DESPITE OUR BEST EFFORTS

Transformation is a journey.

As long as we are living in earthly bodies, even after we receive salvation, we are all still human. We all keep sinning despite our best efforts; we all fall short.

God knew this would happen.

GOD HAS MADE A WAY TO HOLINESS

God provided a way for sinners who sin after the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus has been applied and made them whole and completely clean.

This way is called atonement. The once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus provides salvation atonement; the annual atonement brings sanctification atonement.

Atonement from the blood of Christ is how you are able to enter the door to Heaven.

Sanctification from obedience after receiving this Atonement is how you enter the door to a better life on earth in the present as well as the future.

Both are a gift of God through His Son Jesus Christ.

You can have Atonement without Sanctification; but you can’t have Sanctification without Atonement.

This process of Sanctification while on the road to holiness is comparable to a traveler who has bathed and is walking along a dusty road in order to attend a very special event.

When he arrives he does not need to bath again, for he is clean, but he has picked up the dust of the road along the way, so he must wash his feet before entering the special event.

This is what we do in the time of Elul and leading up to Yom Kippur.

We wash the dusty feet of our souls.

We clean ourselves from the journey through the world.

We prepare to be perfectly clean and holy before God as we make our way to the Wedding Feast that will be held in Heaven where a perfect, clean and holy Bride will one day be presented to Christ.

A TIME FOR REPENTANCE

Every year during this time we are rehearsing; remembering our part that we must play in this holy union with God.

We prepare by repentance.

So many struggle with this concept saying “once saved always saved.” I just carry that concept a little further saying, “Once saved, always in need of confession.”

In the end we all DO stay saved because we have been cleansed past, present and future by the sacrificial blood of Christ; but we must do our part to grow in God’s holiness as we travel on this journey. God’s Holy Spirit living within us leads us through our confessions to our Beloved.

A TIME FOR TRANSFORMATION

We must continue to allow God to transform us, and we must realize that we are all still sinners in need of God’s forgiveness, even after we have become believers and stepped into the path that leads to transformation and life inside The Kingdom of God.

Those who are saved are still capable of sinning; and we do. God will help us with this if we follow the ways of Christ and pray.

There is always more transformation going on. This transformation process will continue until we meet God face-to-face.

This time of which we speak is the holy process that prepares the Bride for the Groom. It is called sanctification.

We must offer love and care to a world that is bent on sin. In the darkness of the world, we must always be learning to be the light that shows the way to a different way of life. When we allow God to transform us and work in our lives; this becomes possible.

ELUL DAY 3

POINTS TO PONDER AND CONSIDER

On this THIRD day of the month of Elul, are you starting to feel a transformation that is taking place inside your heart? Sit quietly and ponder this. Try to put into words all the things that God is speaking to you. Have you begun to make needed changes? Are you becoming more aware of some things that you had overlooked previously? Note them here so that you can be reminded as we go through the year and plan out ways to make the turn that is required in our journey to that place which will take us to a more peaceful spot in our relationship with God.

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