As we've learned this week, our God is fully trustworthy. Placing our trust in his hands is the wisest thing we could ever do.

As we finish up our week on trust today,

we'll explore how trust plays a role in our sanctification

and maturing as believers.

As we commit to walk with and trust the Lord, may he bring forth the harvest of

righteousness in our lives. Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. team podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 37 verses 5 through 6.

Scripture says, commit your way to the Lord,

trust in him and he will act.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noon day.

Sanctification and holiness are words that used to strike terror into my heart.

As a believer, I've always tried to pursue holiness and I always seem to fail.

It seems like no matter what I do I can't escape sin and can't get

past my own brokenness and mess. Even in seasons where I'm experiencing freedom

from some sins, there always seemed to be something

else I need to fix or get better at.

I felt like I was on this endless tightrope of spiritual development that I kept falling off of and of which I couldn't

seem to find the end.

While God's heart is most definitely for our sanctification in holiness. His perspective is far

different from what I just described. You see, God knows that sanctification

doesn't come about through our own efforts. I can in no way sanctify myself

because in and of myself I have no holiness. The truth God is for us today is simply this.

Sanctification comes about by true relationship with our Heavenly Father alone.

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