Today, on this 1st day of September, I want to share a very important TRUTH via Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest"!
Destiny Of Holiness
Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
— 1 Peter 1:16 (R.V.)
Continually restate to yourself
what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor
health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are
dissipated with them; right, good, noble affinities which will yet have their
fulfilment, but in the meantime God has to atrophy them. The one thing that
matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all
costs a man must be rightly related to God.
Do I believe I need to be holy?
Do I believe God can come into me and make me holy? If by your preaching you
convince me that I am unholy, I resent your preaching. The preaching of the
gospel awakens an intense resentment because it must reveal that I am unholy;
but it also awakens an intense craving. God has one destined end for mankind,
viz., holiness. His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal
blessing-machine for men; He did not come to save men out of pity: He came to
save men because He had created them to be holy. The Atonement means that God
can put me back into perfect union with Himself, without a shadow between,
through the Death of Jesus Christ.
Never tolerate through sympathy
with yourself or with others any practice that is not in keeping with a holy
God. Holiness means unsullied walking with the feet, unsullied talking with the
tongue, unsullied thinking with the mind — every detail of the life under the
scrutiny of God. Holiness is not only what God gives me, but what I manifest
that God has given me.
I LOVE this! God did NOT send JESUS to the cross because He felt bad about our condition! He sent JESUS to the cross so that mankind could be restored back to fellowship with HIM! Remember that Adam walked WITH Adam and Eve, but HE was not IN them! The New Birth makes us HOLY, which means: separated FROM the world, and separated UNTO GOD! SO, God's entire purpose for making us able to be holy is so that WE could have intimate fellowship with HIM! AMEN! Pursue that fellowship with HIM as though nothing else matters! THEN you will find out who you truly are! IN HIM! Here is Hillsong with "You Are Holy":
Shalom in Him!
