January 21, 2025 PURIFY OURSELVES
2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.”
Some think that it’s all up to God. However, it’s abundantly clear in scripture that those belonging to God have certain responsibilities. As believers, we are to respond to what God has spoken through His word and to what the Spirit says to us personally. It is God who transforms us, but we have a part to play in the process. The word of God has many instructions as to how believers are to live as sons and daughters of God. The above verse gives us clear instructions as to what we are to be about as His followers. Because God is holy, He expects and desires that His people be holy. Because God gave His Son that we might be forgiven and saved, and because God has and does demonstrate His great love for us, our heart should be to be pleasing to Him in all we do. The instructions we have above are very practical in nature. We should be actively be about purifying ourselves. The word we need to note is ‘contaminates.’ We must be on guard to what would contaminate our bodies and our spirits. Obviously, we can be contaminated by what we look at, what we think about, what we listen to, and by not taking care on our physical bodies. These things really hit home; it affects what we watch on tv, on our computers and cell phones; and it affects the words we speak; our attitude and mindset; and what we listen to. Do not misunderstand; as believers, we do not live by a list of rules; we are to live being led by the Spirt and led by a heart that desire to please Him with the life we live. We are to be about ‘perfecting holiness.’ Perfecting holiness means we are laying aside whatever is unlike Christ and putting on whatever is like Christ. If we reverence God, we will want to honor Him and be pleasing to Him from a pure heart. Often, it’s a ‘both and;’ God is pleased with us in Christ; but we have the privilege of pleasing Him with the life we live in this flesh and bone. So, let us be diligent to be daily purifying ourselves of anything that would contaminate our bodies and our spirits. If it’s not pleasing to God, lay it aside!
1 Peter 1:15-16 “But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Blessings, Buddy
2 Corinthians 7:1 “Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.”
Some think that it’s all up to God. However, it’s abundantly clear in scripture that those belonging to God have certain responsibilities. As believers, we are to respond to what God has spoken through His word and to what the Spirit says to us personally. It is God who transforms us, but we have a part to play in the process. The word of God has many instructions as to how believers are to live as sons and daughters of God. The above verse gives us clear instructions as to what we are to be about as His followers. Because God is holy, He expects and desires that His people be holy. Because God gave His Son that we might be forgiven and saved, and because God has and does demonstrate His great love for us, our heart should be to be pleasing to Him in all we do. The instructions we have above are very practical in nature. We should be actively be about purifying ourselves. The word we need to note is ‘contaminates.’ We must be on guard to what would contaminate our bodies and our spirits. Obviously, we can be contaminated by what we look at, what we think about, what we listen to, and by not taking care on our physical bodies. These things really hit home; it affects what we watch on tv, on our computers and cell phones; and it affects the words we speak; our attitude and mindset; and what we listen to. Do not misunderstand; as believers, we do not live by a list of rules; we are to live being led by the Spirt and led by a heart that desire to please Him with the life we live. We are to be about ‘perfecting holiness.’ Perfecting holiness means we are laying aside whatever is unlike Christ and putting on whatever is like Christ. If we reverence God, we will want to honor Him and be pleasing to Him from a pure heart. Often, it’s a ‘both and;’ God is pleased with us in Christ; but we have the privilege of pleasing Him with the life we live in this flesh and bone. So, let us be diligent to be daily purifying ourselves of anything that would contaminate our bodies and our spirits. If it’s not pleasing to God, lay it aside!
1 Peter 1:15-16 “But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Blessings, Buddy
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