Posted by
Rob on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:04:11 AM
I have been reading and hearing a good deal about holiness. Of course since the day I was saved I have been taught about grace. I have many friends who believe once saved always saved. I have just as many friends who believe one can fall from grace. At one time I was a staunch supporter of the theory of it being possible to lose one's salvation. Then I was swung totally the other way. Now, the question I have is this. What do you do with holiness. There are numerous places in the bible where God says be holy. Some are listed here.
Eph. 1:4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and without blame before him in love:
1Peter 1:15,16 but as He who called you
is holy, you also be holy in all
your conduct,
16 because it is written,
"Be holy, for I am holy."*
Now these are just a couple of places where we are commanded to be holy. I have found in my study that God doesn't suggest things, He commands them. The bible says if we love Him we will obey His commandments. So when we sit in our pews, either piously with our pickled faces or ecstatically with our hands held high, after spending Saturday night watching something risque on tv, or engaging in a less than appropriate conversation at work, or having unkind thoughts about a neighbor, or even lustful thoughts about a neighbor's spouse we need to ask ourselves a question. What do you do with holiness?