A Call To Holiness

1 Peter 1:15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct

When God redeemed us, He did not merely do so to save us from hell’s fire, from our sins, the sins of others, this wicked world etcetera etcetera. As a matter of fact, He did so for His good pleasure, He did not have to do so. And to walk in the faith with this mentality can cause us to place all eyes on our sinfulness rather than on His holiness. To walk in the sin nature that we “thank God will be no more when this life is over”. Rather than to recognize the new nature He’s placed in us, via His Holy Spirit and walking in accordance to His fruit.  Not speaking on when we fall in a sin and truly repent and turn from it, but when we live a daily life of walking in sinful behavior oppose to holy living.

As 1 Peter 1:15 states, and it’s good to read the entire chapter when time permits, He who called us, if we are indeed called, is holy. Therefore we also are to be holy in all of our conduct. This scripture leaves no room to allow sin to run ramped in our lives or to rely heavily on the forgiveness of God. Not that He is not forgiving, but that His forgiveness wasn’t meant to be used as tool to sin all we’d like and ask for it.  I’d even further say that we’d have to examine the sincerity of our own hearts if we find ourselves falling in the same sins, am I truly repenting or am I simply saying what I believe God wants to hear? And once I’ve repented have I asked the Lord to develop the fruit of His Spirit in me so that I do not sin against Him?

That’s the good news!! As believers, the call to holy living isn’t pressure on us in our sin nature to “be good”, that’s impossible.  He provides what’s needed to be in right relationship with Him via the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ, and in our believing and receiving His Spirit, He sanctifies us so that we are able to live holy lives before Him. In other words everything needed to live holy before Him can be found in Him. Not that there isn’t a work on our part but that the tools to walk it out is provided by Him. And if we’re truthful with ourselves, it’s really always better serving Him than our flesh in the long run.

So let us commit this moment to walk in holiness rather than the deadness of our sin nature.

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