Extreme Makeover: Sanctify

The series Extreme Makeover ended with the talk - "Sanctify". Bro. Buddy Tan, our beloved Feast builder, emphasized that sanctification is about allowing God to love you. He redefined holiness from being about doing things to allowing things to happen to you, from being about working for god to allowing God to work in you, and from being about loving God to allowing God to love you.

The talk reminded the attendees that deep within each of us, we already are beautiful. We already are holy. Our only responsibility is to bring out the beauty and holiness within us.

The scripture used for the talk was from John 2:1-10, about the wedding at Cana, particularly, Jesus' miracle of changing water into wine. Bro. Buddy said that water is the symbol of our life and wine is the symbol of the Holy Spirit.

Only God can turn water into wine, our imperfect work into God's work, your inadequate love into God's love, your damaged life into God's life. Only God can make you holy.

However, there are times that people experience losing their passion for the Lord. The talk gave the following solutions for when our wine runs dry:

1. See God in the ordinary.
2. Keep praying. As you pray more, you will love God more because you will know Him more.
3. Surround yourself with holy company.

Sanctification should find its fullness in love because if we're holy but we have not love, we are nothing!