“Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.” (Leviticus 19:1-2 NASB)
Like you, hopefully, I still remember what God’s messenger preached on last Sunday. Yesterday, I referenced the title of the message that the Lord sent through my oldest son this past Sunday, “The Pursuit of Holiness.” In his delivery, with a tinge of humor, he told a story about how he and his wife surf through channels while watching TV during dinner. This young and upcoming preacher described channel surfing, clicking the remote, going from one channel to the other, trying to find something that was deemed as good to watch. Most of us can relate to his transparent account because we do the exact same thing at times. At the end of his story, the well-prepared minister drove home a pertinent point, a point worth sharing with you. The point: When it comes to being holy, stay right there! Don’t change the channel!
He was so right! Amen! We need to strive to live holy at all times; make perfect progress and avoid regressing or reaching out and putting just anything on our daily agendas that interferes or impedes with our personal presentation of ourselves as sanctified, set-apart, striving for perfection, saints of God. You shall be holy! Those words, just as they were true for God’s people in the time of the text above, it is true for us today. Stay holy! Don’t change the channel!
If you need me to substantiate or back up what I just said we need to strive for with solid evidence, at the least, read the ending verse before you start your day! Be better today than yesterday! Remember who you are and whose you are. And, in the words of the preacher once again, “Don’t change the channel!” Be blessed!
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (I Peter 2:9 NASB)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King