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The world and our sanctification
The Freeman
|January 05, 2026
We need to know the important relation between our temporal affairs in the world and our most important duty and responsibility of our own sanctification.
We need to realize more deeply that our sanctification is done always in the world, which is the arena for us to tackle the test of whether we would like to be with God or simply to be on our own.
This means that if we truly love God, we should not run away from the world and the many challenges it presents to us. Rather we should love it, immerse ourselves in it, make use of what is true, good, and beautiful in it and purify it of what is not.
It would clearly be a wrong understanding of what and how it is to love God if we equate loving God with running away from the world, or worse, hating it. The negative and evil things we can find in the world should only spur us to love the world the way God loves it --sending his only begotten Son to it. In other words, we have to be “alter Christus” to love the world properly.
This story is from the January 05, 2026 edition of The Freeman.
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