Be Holy!

"Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:14

"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." 1Peter 1:15-16

I'm currently reading a book called "The pursuit of Holiness" by Jeff Bridges. Its definitely convicting. I'm learning that we (even as christians) have lost sight of the Holiness of God. God tells us to Be Holy. but what do we do we look around at the world and compare our thoughts and actions to ungodly men and say ' you know i'm doing pretty good'. we think because we dont do this or dont do that or we do this or do that we are living lives that honor God. Our comparison should be to Jesus. He should be the standard we compare our lives too. He was the only one to walk a sinless blameless life. We look over so many sins and we dont evaluate our thoughts to the thoughts of God. So many times we sit idely by and listen to our hearts but Jeremiah tells us the "heart is wicked above all things." We need to talk to our hearts and pour in the Word of God. I think matter of fact I know we all take God's grace for granted. We think oh God wont mind if i do this i can confess later and he will forgive me. or we live our lives and lie to ourselves and think God isnt watching. God knows our thoughts before we think them. Alot of people are all jazzed up about loosing weight and getting fit and making new years resolutions for their physical bodies but what about your spiritual self. How fit are you spiritually? I know i'm no where close to where God wants me to be. But I pray that God would give me the strength to press on to yearn and want to be holy. And no we cant do this in our own strength we have to ask God to help us. I encourage you to "be killing sin or it will be killing you" --John Owen