Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

A holy person will try to remember these things. He will try to shape his course in life by them. He will lay to heart the saying of John, He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked (1 John 2:6), and the saying of Peter, that Jesus suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps (1 Peter 2:21). Happy is he who has learned to make Christ his all, both for salvation and for example! Much time would be saved and much sin prevented if people would more often ask themselves the question, “What would Jesus Christ have said and done if He were in my place?”