Choose Holiness

 

“As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.”

—----Scripture Reference----

The way we live our lives is a series of choices. We actually make many choices each day. Most of those choices are relatively routine.

But certain choices we make reveal whether we intend to follow our own will, or whether we have consciously and purposefully decided to allow the Holy Spirit to enable us to surrender our wills to God’s will.

The Apostle Peter offered this counsel found in 1 Peter 1:13-16:

Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

The pathway of obedience—bending our will to God’s will, as enabled by the Holy Spirit—reaps great rewards.

Let’s choose holiness this day. It’s a much better pathway than the one we might naturally choose on our own.

 

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