Sanctification

Developing A Christian Worldview.
Is Sanctification Our Responsibility or Gods?

According to my Mac dictionary, sanctify is to set apart as or declare holy; consecrate. So as Christians is it our responsibility or God’s to be holy and consecrated?

My response to this question is that it is duel responsibility between God and us. I say this because we first must be willing to allow the Holy Spirit to work and move in us. However, we cannot, in our sin, make ourselves holy. As humans our natural instinct is sin and corruption. Without God we will always fail. We will always fall short. We cannot on our own save or separate ourselves from this world.

What we can do is dive into the word of God daily and pray for our heart to reflect the heart of Jesus. I think that God has given us the bible so that we may see what is right in order to know what is wrong. By reading scripture it plants seeds in our heart that the Holy Spirit then waters, but that alone cannot sanctify us. We need the Holy Spirit to then come in and give nourishment and strength to aid us in the process of becoming holy.

If you are not going to let the spirit move then sanctification can never happen. In short, the process is a joint responsibility between us as believers and God as the father to become holy and set apart as followers of the one true God.