The Holiness of God (1 Pet. 1:14-15)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12-09-03

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  The Holiness of God

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  1Peter 1:14-15

 

            Message of the verse:  “14  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15  but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior.”  (NASB95)     “14 Obey God because you are his children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn’t know any better then.  15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God—who chose you to be his children—is holy.”  (NLT) 

 

            Peter gives a warning to his readers in verse 14 where he says that believers should not fall back into the ways they were before they were saved by the grace of God.  The Bible says that all of us were born sinners because we all possess the nature of Adam.  Believers have two natures, and one of them is holy, and that nature always wants to do what is right and holy because that nature came from God who is holy as both verses 15, and 16 tell us.  Peter used the word called in verse 15, and God is the One who calls people unto Himself, just as He called Israel as a nation, and just as Jesus called His disciples.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  It could be said that this is the spiritual lesson for everyday, for I am to be holy each and every day of my life, holy like the One who called me.  I need to remember Gal. 2:21 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

 

The Word of God has reminded me of this truth about holiness, and the truth that God has placed in me His holy nature, and that I am to yield to it.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Remember that the Lord is in control of all things, including Sandy’s illness, disorder, and the test she will take tomorrow.  He is in control of our investments and Andrew Lech, He is in control of the trials at the Church, and He is in control of our new friend Valerie and I do believe that He will call her unto Himself soon.  I do pray for that.