TUESDAY October 31st
HOLY – 1 Peter 1:14-16
‘As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”’
I personally think that this is one of the weaknesses of the Church in the 21st Century. Although we come by faith to Christ, too often we also choose to cling to or keep holding onto so much of what we have supposed to have been saved from.
I am not wanting to delve too deeply into this today, but to call each one of us to consider evaluating where we are in our walk with God, and to look at those things that we perhaps may be clinging onto that are hindering us in our walk.
God is a holy God and he calls us to be holy people. It is not an optional extra, it is a requirement.
We need to notice what exactly it is that Peter says, ‘As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance’, we cannot, and we must not live as we once lived!
Once we have been enlightened concerning the demand that God has for us to be holy we cannot blame ignorance! In Titus we read ‘For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.