Holiness - That is what God desires of us

 Let us discuss on Holiness - that is what the Lord desires of us these days. 

There is a verse in the Bible which says "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord" Hebrews 12:14

In the book of Ecclesiastes, the wise man tells that there is a time for everything under the sun, a time to laugh, a time to cry, a time to keep silence and a time to speak,...Ecc 3:4,7, but there is no time, no not in a day, in which a man ought not to be holy. 

We are all busy in this world and each one is after fulfilling their destiny. Let us stop for a moment and consider the matter of holiness. 

A man may go great lengths, and yet never achieve true holiness

Balaam - very knowledgable; Judas Iscariot - had the best teacher; Herod - had zeal for certain matters in religion, and so on.. we see that in Bible many people had many passions, but without holiness, all of them perished. 

Let us understand what is practical holiness and how we can achieve it ?

1. Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgement, hating what he hates, and loving what he loves, and measuring everything by the standard of His word. 

2. Holy man will hate everything that is called sin. He will have a holy hatred toward sin as mentioned in Proverbs 8:13 - The fear of the Lord is to Hate evil. A holy man will hate all kinds of evil, but will love the sinner and will pray for his / her salvation.

3. A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ. In thought and in deed, he would like to be like our saviour. 

4. A holy man will follow after meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, keeping in control of his tongue etc. He will not be in a hurry to do anything, but will learn to wait on God. 

5. A holy man will follow after charity and brotherly kindness. 

These are 5 points which talk about practical holiness. 

We will discuss more about this topic in the following blog posts.