“The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly” (I. Thess. v. 23).
A great tidal wave is bearing up the stranded ship, until she floats above
the bar without a straining timber or struggling seaman, instead of the
ineffectual and toilsome efforts of the struggling crew and the strain of
the engines, which had tried in vain to move her an inch until that
heavenly impulse lifted her by its own attraction.
It is God’s great law of gravitation lifting up, by the warm sunbeams, the
mighty iceberg which a million men could not raise a single inch, but
melts away before the rays and the warmth of the sunshine, and rises in
clouds of evaporation to meet its embrace until that cold and heavy mass
is floating in fleecy clouds of glory in the blue ocean of the sky.
How easy all this! How mighty! How simple! How divine! Beloved, have you
come into the divine way of holiness! If you have, how your heart must
swell with gratitude! If you have not, do you not long for it, and will
you not unite in the prayer of the text that the very God of peace will
sanctify you wholly?