Just A Few Of My Thoughts …

“So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of grace will be released to you. As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better. Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. For Scripture says: ‘You are to be holy, because I am holy.’ Since you call on him as your heavenly Father, the impartial Judge who judges according to each one’s works, live each day with holy awe and reverence throughout your time on earth. For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes, but the precious blood of Christ-who like a spotless, unblemished lamb was sacrificed for us.” 1 Peter 1:13-19 TPT

As God’s obedient children, we are to shape our lives like the One who saved us, the Holy One, Jesus Christ. As God is holy, we are called to be holy. We are to live as His children and follow in His footsteps. We must be absolutely devoted to God in all that we do in order to live holy lives.

In this passage, Peter is telling us that everything about God is Holy, and we are a people, set apart for God. He tells us that as believers we must conduct ourselves with fear, which is a healthy reverence for Him, in our true devotion of holy living. We cannot become holy on our own. It is in and through the Holy Spirit that dwells within us so that we can continue to seek His Holiness in the asking.

Heavenly Father, help us to remember the importance of calling on your power for our peace and our daily strength, and be ever so thankful.

In Christ Love
Margaret