A lecturer was talking about what he called "the most dangerous road in the world." Most people in the audience began to think of a journey into the African jungle, or facing shipwreck going through the Straits of Magellan. The lecturer explained: "More and more books are being sold about escaping prison with a toothpick or journeying up the Amazon on stilts. But the most dangerous journey is the journey of our everyday living. It is dangerous because it ends, for all of us, in death!" Not a very pleasant way to put it, but it does make one think. 

The journey I have in mind this morning doesn't end in death, it ends in wholeness, in completeness, in maturity. Saint Paul describes it in our text: "The God of peace sanctify you completely." The word "completely" means "through and through"…