We should be careful to avoid substituting negatives for positives. When God commanded his people to be holy, he did not base his command first and foremost on the detestability of sin. He grounded this command in his own character, saying, You shall be holy because I am holy. Yes, God hates and abhors what is unholy, but this abhorence springs from his delight in what is good and true, namely himself. Like him, we should not look at the joyful pursuit of holiness as the wearisome extermination of vice. We should not merely hate what is evil, we should also cling to what is good. In doing so, we move from the defensive to the offensive, a move that is a major turing point in the winning of any war. - Betsy Childs
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:45:41 +0000