MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!

but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your conduct; 1 Peter 1:15

Sorry for picking a verse that’s impossible.  Yet this is a command for us to be holy like God.  For God that means He is sinless, unable to sin, separate from sin and hates sin.  Sinning is one thing that God cannot do because it is contrary to His very nature.  Sin doesn’t cross God’s mind.  He hates it, and we are to hate what God hates.  God doesn’t hate people.  God doesn’t hate things, but we sometimes hate our cars, for example. No, God hates sin, and we have a hard time hating sin.  Sin tends to feel good, it is desirable, fun, convenient or it gets us what we want.  That is at least in the short run, and many of us have trouble thinking past the current moment.  For us to hate sin, we have to make the choice to hate it.  It is a choice contrary to our fallen nature.  It is a declared position in our conscious mind with which there is something deep inside us that doesn’t truly agree.  You’re commanded to make the choice to be holy like God.  Now, we are sinless in Christ who has washed away our sins.  Yet, we still sin.  Because of that thing deep inside us that loves sin, we are very much still able to sin.  But, since God is commanding us to be holy, there must be some level of holiness that He demands out of us.  We need to rise to that level of holiness.  Is there something that you will do today that is not holy?  You must, according to God’s Word, choose to not do that thing.  And, as we choose to not do that thing, we move closer to being as God expects: Holy.

Tom Johnson