Summer and Sanctification

Well, congratulations on finishing up the school year students. I hope and pray you will be pressing into the Lord with fervency and passion this summer. Though summer can be a time for relaxing, it is not a time for slackness in your walk with Jesus. Heaven and hell are too real, eternity is too close for taking time out in the fight to know and love Jesus. Not that there isn't time for resting in the Lord and letting Him restore your soul (Psalm 23), but we can never let down our guard and coast in our spirituality. So I just write this in hopes that you are finding fellow believers and setting up a plan to pursue the Lord this summer. There is nothing else that is truly worthy of your heart, for "the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life". (Psalm 63:3) If you want to find fellowship this summer, and are not sure how, contact someone from prepare, or reply with a comment to this blog even and we'll help you out. I'll end with some quotes directed toward helping us in the process of sanctification.

"Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace."
- A.W. PINK

"I never stood by the bedside of a godly man who reposed any confidence whatever in his own prayers, or repentance, or religiousness. I have heard eminently holy men quoting in death the words, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." In fact, the nearer men come to heaven, and the more prepared they are for it, the more simply is their trust in the merit of the Lord Jesus, and the more intensely do they abhor all trust in themselves."
-C.H. Spurgeon