2 Cor 7:1 (GW)
The fear of God is the beginning of Holiness. You know there are some that don't take the Holiness of God seriously. We have all heard people say and maybe we have said it ourselves " he is so holier than thou" and don't get me wrong there are some that do exude that feeling but sometimes it is God convicting us from within because we lack that holiness or even the desire to be holy, but guess what, he calls us to be Holy for He is Holy. If we call ourselves by the name of Christian, which basically means Christ is in us, He is part of our being, then we are to seek after Holiness, to be like Him, to cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates us. This is an on going process, an everyday thing and the Holy Spirit helps us to overcome. Paul says he works out his salvation daily. (salvation does not just mean to keep us from going to hell, the Greek word translates into wholeness) It is a going on to perfection.
To live that Holy life is a cleansing from those things that keep us from living life to the fullest in Christ. After we have come to Christ we have The HOLY Spirit living in us, however we still have the tendency to sin but should not continuously live in sin. All of us are going to sin occasionally but to hold on to it and live in that sin committing it time after time is a lack of a fear of God. If we continue to live in that sin and continue with it we are in a way flaunting God's Holiness and his ability to help us overcome that sin or give us the desire to overcome that sin. In other words we love that sin more than we fear God. I have heard people refer to fear of God being a reverence for Him and it is but it is also a real fear, for one day we are going to appear before the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONE WHO CREATED YOU, THE HOLY ONE, PURE HOLINESS.
I know these are hard words for many of you and they have been for me, but I say these things out of experience as I work through some of these issues even now. Believe me He will bring you out and bring you in to His light.
Continue in Him
1 comment:
You are very right, there are a lot of people who don't take the holiness of the Lord seriously. It makes me intensely angry, but after that it makes me sad, because these people obviously don't understand the magnitude of who and what God is.
And because of that, I think the sadness I feel for them most times outweighs the anger that rushes through me when they mock my savior. After all, it was Christ himself who said, "Father forgive them, they know not what they do."
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