Sanctifying Faith

The following is from A. B. Simpson's book In the School of Faith:

". . . it is also true that we may receive from God that with which we can please and even wholly satisfy Him, so that we will stand before Him without fault or blame.  Here is the mystery of godliness of which Jesus is the wondrous solution.

"There is but one Man who ever perfectly pleased God.  It is He of whom the Father said, 'This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased' (Matthew 3:17).

"There is but one way by which we can perfectly please God, and that is by being so united to Him, and having Him so indwell us that He will answer for us in everything, and we can present Him to God as our perfect offering and complete life.

"This secret of justification is that we accept as a present His blood and righteousness and are made 'accepted in the beloved' (Ephesians 1:6).

"The secret of sanctification is that we receive Him as our inner life and holiness, 'who of God is made unto us . . . sanctification' (1 Corinthians 1:30).

"Our holiness is no longer human, but divine, no longer our best attempts, but now His perfect seamless robe.  Thus the Father is pleased with us even as He is with Him, and the wondrous prayer is fulfilled, 'That the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them' (John 17:26b).

"It is because He is in us now that we are loved with the very same love, for we are now a part of Him.

". . . There is no other way of holiness that can ever reach God's high standard or man's low level of perfect helplessness.  All else is human; this is divine.  It is higher than the best that man can do, yet easier than the least of His own struggles.

"It is not an attainment but an obtainment.  It is not a task, but a gift.  It is 'I no longer live, but Christ lives in me' (Galatians 2:20)."