An Illustration for Sanctification

I’ve often use the jagged lines on a heart monitor screen, dipping and climbing, for an illustration of the messy nature of sanctification. However, I also like Malcolm Guite’s hiking illustration. Maybe you will use it to encourage someone who is frustrated by what seems to be a lack of growth.

“Some things are too great to come at directly. Just as we may weave back and forth as we climb a hill, and appear to be going round in circles, yet all the while are coming closer to the summit, so in our religious and spiritual life things may seem circuitous; we may think we have come back to the same spot, but always, if we press on, it is a little higher, a little closer to the truth.”
― Malcolm Guite