We are approaching the time in which we celebrate Passover and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  It was in this setting of the final hours before our Lord death on the cross that He prayed these words to His Father in Heaven: “Sanctify them through thy truth, thy Word is truth.”  Jesus was praying for His disciples as he was preparing them, for His departure.  As Jesus continued He included us: “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;” (Joh 17:20 AV)

Within hours of these words being spoken the disciples began experiencing the turmoil of seemingly their world being turned upside down.  All that was left was the Word of God that they had heard and seen in the life of Jesus.  Everything else had failed them, their strength, their courage, their understanding, but the Word had not failed them and it held them together during those critical hours of their uncertainty.

We are to be sanctified through truth.  God’s Word is truth.  Let us not lose sight of this pivotal point.  Though all else may seem to fail, God’s Word will not.  We live in the time of the approaching return of our Lord, false teachers and false teaching abound.  Jesus prayer was that we be sanctified by truth (God’s Word).  It is the Word in its purity that will unify us in Christ.  It is the Word in its purity that will fulfill Jesus prayer for us and establish the Word in us.  May the final words of Jesus prayer be fulfilled in us.

: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (Joh 17:26 AV)