#8 How to Remain Holy in Our Private Lives
It takes active work to remain holy in our private lives. Discover some things the Bible warns us to avoid in order to remain unspotted from the world.
It takes active work to remain holy in our private lives. Discover some things the Bible warns us to avoid in order to remain unspotted from the world.
This study on holiness could be retitled, “What it means to be a Christian. Just as the Bible declares that we should be holy because God is holy, it also tells us that we could love because God is love. Thus, holiness in action is love in action.
We can say we want to be holy, but what does holiness look like in action? How much do we really want to be separated for God’s use?
Holiness first appears and begins growing in our inner being. As we allow the holy spirit of Jesus to change and direct our life, he begins bearing long-lasting, mature fruit from the inside out. This is commonly called the Fruit of the Spirit. The nine attributes of this fruit are listed in Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
In this post I delve into how to maintain a life of holiness. After all, this is what we need to do to make it to heaven and allow others to see Jesus, our holy God, through us. It may seem difficult when viewed from a human perspective, but when we seek after the God who lives within us he leads us to become more like him every day. Thus a life of holiness becomes more natural the closer we get to him.
I would like to investigate how we, as flawed humans, can successfully become holy to fulfill this command. After all, it is one thing to know you are supposed to do something and quite another to actually do it.
Why would God command us to be holy when some may consider it an unfair demand or unattainable goal?
Dedicated to God The root word of holiness in Hebrew is QODESH. For a person, it indicates being set apart/dedicated unto God and separated from all that is sinful and impure. Saints are holy ones, sanctified and consecrated to and … Continued