Be Holy. As God is Holy.

The one who chose you is Holy. So you should be holy in all that you do. It is written, "Be holy, because I am holy."

1 Peter 1:15-16

  Why does God want us to be holy? Because that's what he has always intended. That's the way he made us.

  Did you know that when God first made us, we were holy? Adam and Eve were sinless. They were like God. But when they sinned, they fell from that high position. They lost their goodness and perfection. They became sinners.

  Ever since then, every person ever born is a sinner. He can only stop being a sinner and become a saint by trusting Christ and following him.
 
  God wants us to be like him. Why? So he can point to us whenever anyone asks and say, "That is what I'm like."

  God wants us to be little images of him, so that his universe is populated with people who love, give, sacrifice, care, and live in peace.


Make me holy, Lord, and help me to want to be holy, too.

In Jesus,
AMEN