We should start treating ourselves and each other as if it were true. We should start working for a world in which all people are treated as children of God, with love and respect. Sanctification by grace means the process by which, through God's grace, human beings are made holy. Then you respond by wanting to live up to God''s high opinion of you, and to serve God's purposes in this world. To be a Christian, in fact, is to have glimpsed the grace of God in Jesus Christ, and to want to live the rest of your life in the light of that grace.
Justification is the doorway into a life of growth in grace.
Sanctification is that continuing journey, in which God is always giving us opportunities to become more holy, and more whole. Sanctification, then, is a lifetime project. Sanctification by grace means that the love of God that brought us into this world, and freed us from self-justification, will continue to strengthen and comfort and bless us, to the very end. When I met Daniel, he was thin and gaunt. He spoke softly, smiled slowly, and rarely talked about himself.