Be holy

We like to say remember so and so? Now he or she was a good person. I can’t remember a time when talking about someone that I’ve used the term holy. He or she was a holy person. It’s just not something we say. It seems unattainable to be holy. In fact I doubt any of us would ever consider ourselves holy. We might read about those in the Bible like David and Job and Peter or Paul and others that we might say were holy but are there no holy people today? I would say with confidence that Billy Graham was a holy man even though he wouldn’t have considered himself to be. Was he perfect? No!! He’s a human. We somehow have the idea that to live a holy life we must be perfectly sin free. It’s not possible to be sin free but it is possible to live a holy life. 1 Peter 1:14-16 as obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who has called you is holy, be holy in all you do; for it is written: be holy because I am holy.
We serve a holy God. Jesus came here and lived amongst us and gave us the perfect example of what a holy life looks like. We have a pattern. While we can’t be perfect like Jesus because we are not God and we do have this pesky sin nature, we can strive to be holy and live out our faith. We can choose not to indulge in the sinful desires but to subdue them. In Christ, we have the Holy Spirit living in us, and we have the Bible to guide us, and we have each other for support. We are completely without excuse when it comes to living a holy life. We can!! Just like those men and women of the Bible. Just like Billy Graham. We all have access to the same power if we so desire to have it!! Dear Jesus, our great example, help us to pattern our lives after yours. Give us strength against temptation and power over sin and make us holy as you are holy!!
Let it be said of our generation of believers that we are holy!! Let’s work together to strive to be like Christ!! Have a blessed day my friends!