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Len did a great job today introducing (or reintroducing) us to the heavy concept of the holiness of God. As we continue to read through Leviticus this week, let’s  meditate on that idea of God’s holiness and on His calling on our lives to be holy as He is holy.

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 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.’ ”
(1 Peter 1:13-16)

“Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name. He calls them to forsake the world; we assure them that if they but accept Jesus the world is their oyster. He calls them to suffer; we call them to enjoy all the bourgeois comforts modern civilization affords…He calls them to holiness; we call them to a cheap and tawdry happiness that would have been rejected with scorn by the least of the Stoic philosophers.”
(A.W. Tozer)

“The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God’s one aim is the production of saints. He 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.”
(Oswald Chambers)

“The whole purpose of God in redemption is to make us holy and to restore us to the image of God. To accomplish this He disengages us from earthly ambitions and draws us away from the cheap and unworthy prizes that worldly men set their hearts upon.”
(A.W. Tozer)

It is indeed a sobering reality to see the standard we are being called to. May it not be that we are content with a life of casual indifference or outright disobedience, but that we would actively pursue transformation into the likeness of our great, perfectly just, supremely loving, relentlessly pursuing, completely holy God.

This weeks readings are:
Leviticus 11:1-23:44, Mark 5:21-10:12, Psalm 38:1-44:8, Proverbs 10:8-19.
Feel free to post any thoughts, comments, questions, etc. about these readings as a comment to this post.

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