Holiness (by Paul Yap) - March 23, 2009

1 Peter 1:16 "Be holy, because I am holy."
Leviticus 19:2 "Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy."

We could see in the bible that God keeps on emphasize that we must be holy, we must be holy. People might think that being holiness is some kind of difficult, something really impossible and it cannot be done by a human body itself.

I don't know do we ever asked ourselves or other people in the term of business. Terms like who, what, why, where, when & how. Well, I have thought about this and I think I get the answers. It is just from my self learning.

Who = Ourselves (of course)
What = Our spirit, soul & body
Why = To attract Holy Spirit and apart away from the evil spirit
Where = In the presence of God
When = Every single minute
How = Stay spirit awaken all the time

This is just my point of view..I don't know how the others thought, but I think this could be accurate to live in a life of holiness.

The word of God keeps on telling us that be holy because God is holy. What I can see is, God is actually loving us all the time. As I mentioned, people always think that live in a life of holiness is something sounds impossible and difficult, sometimes men even complain about why God put this "burden" for men. Well, I could see people whom asked this question is blinded in their spiritual eyes. Again, men would ask questions like, "If Jesus Christ is so good and if He loves me so much, why would He just kept on asking us to do something which is really difficult for us, isn't He is God and He can do all things?". People always complain about this kind of matters. Well, I can give a very simple parable on this issue.

If you want something which you really long to have it and feel like can't live without it and you know your daddy can get it for you, will you just ask your daddy once? Aren't you will ask your daddy until he get it for you?

Remember, action shows sincerity and hunger brings out actions.

BUT! You might ask, what to do with holiness? Aren't it's like out of topic??
NO! You can see this in the sight in this world living right now. Another parable could be given easily.

If you did something which is really rebellious and piss your dad off, do you think your daddy will approve your any request of beneficial to yourself but it is harmful?
Aren't you think that if you're clean and good, your dad will give you anything you want and not harmful?

This is exactly the same thing with why God want us to live in holiness. Once we're holy, not only we can listen to God's voice clearly, we can even more understand His will and His project in us, by this, complaints will lesser and no more. Not only that, we can even ask for more all the time from God. Our God is a God with full of generosity, nothing is too hard in Him. And holiness is also a direct connectivity with God. "be Holy, because I am Holy."

Holy + Holy = Connected.

This is why God asked us to be holy, at the mean time, which also mean that God wants us to connect with Him!
Amen?!
Amen!