Tried to date after 5 years of being divorced for the second time. My first attempt flopped when I asked for selling a relationship.
My second attempt started with the request for a celibate relationship from Greg fucci who graciously granted that. And then I proceeded to plan to get married to him. However, I was struggling with my biblical beliefs. I thought for sure Greg would see the truth and join me. But he refused and refused. He had baggage from his previous biblical life.
I see now through my marriages and divorces and relationships, that God was pulling me out of things that challenged this first place in my life.
I insisted to Greg fucci that the Bible was My sanctuary. I insisted that to everyone. It really was my sanctuary. But I was hoping for a relationship that accommodated that sanctuary. My relationship with. Greg did not accommodate that sanctuary. And I was frustrated that Greg would not open his mind to the option of the Bible being his sanctuary.
God was sanctifying me almost against my will because I asked him for exactly that. Bible was My sanctuary. My whole laced with his words on my walls was My sanctuary. God is My sanctuary. And I was being drawn into my sanctuary. I call that saint. At the same time, that Ezekiel that being sanged to find. We throw around as Christians the idea of being sanctified as sort of a default gift for accepting Jesus. But it is in fact a verb that happens to us. If we want it but can't seem to make it happen for ourselves, a true relationship with God will result in being sanctified. Separated. John into our sanctuary.
End the book with this happening to Greg fucci. As he entered hospice Care, I was praying and praying for God to talk to him. He was hoping that his version of God in heaven or true. His new age version. His idea that humans can design their own version of God in heaven. He refused the Bible and I gave him a hard time about that. On the 2nd to the last night I saw him. But on his way to hospice Care at his brother's house, God spoke to him even without the Bible. He was sort of forced to a restaurant and had an experience with Three Angels. When he confided that in the hospice chaplain, the chaplain said that Jesus those angels were Jesus calling him home.
Greg's sanctuary and all of our sanctuary is home with God. Home with Jesus. Greg was being called to his sanctuary. He was being sanctified almost against his will. He had enough faith, the faith of a mustard seed, that Jesus was real. Jesus sanctified him. I hope.
I think the point of this book is the word sanctified means being pulled into our sanctuary away from the riff. Raff.