- Be Holy “For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Dr. James Hamilton is the Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He tells of the following story: “Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitted door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the icehouses, and covered with sawdust. Often the ice would last well into the summer. One man lost a valuable watch while working in an icehouse. He searched diligently for it, carefully raking through the sawdust, but didn’t find it. His fellow workers also looked, but their efforts, too, proved futile. A small boy who heard about the fruitless search slipped into the icehouse during the noon hour and soon emerged with the watch. Amazed, the men asked him how he found it. "I closed the door," the boy replied, "lay down in the sawdust, and kept very still. Soon I heard the watch ticking." Often the question is not whether God is speaking, but whether we are being still enough, and quiet enough, to hear.” The Lord is speaking to us and He desires for us to be quiet enough to hear Him. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that we are called to be holy and listen to Jesus to live a pure and holy life. “Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.” – John Brown God’s Word: “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.’” – 1 Peter 1:15-16
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:53:33 +0000
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