'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the Lord your God' (Luke 20:7).
God was speaking to Moses regarding the practices of the Children of Israel. They were at this point, living like the heathen, worshipping their gods and sacrificing even their children to these false gods. Today, we might not be sacrificing our children to false god, but instead we want to do all that the world is doing, not what God is calling us to do. We comprise the standards of God to those of the world, and God is not please. He is saying to us, that those kind of living separates us from him and leads to a life of destruction. He is is calling us to sanctify ourselves and be holy, for He is the Lord our God. We must therefore, ask Him to consecrate us, to anoint us, so we can live lives that are acceptable to Him. How can we accomplish this? We must change the way we think, change our attitudes and our lifestyles, changing everything that is not in accordance to the will of God. We must refrain from participating in ungodly practices, guard our hearts and those of our children by allowing God to take His words and bind them upon our hearts. We must not have any other gods but the God of heaven. God was not please with the Israelites worshipping heathen gods and being involved in their ungodly practices and will not be please with us doing the same. Anything we put above and before God is regarded as our idols. We must not allow ourselves and our children to become entangled with the pleasures of this world, compromising God's goodness, by sacrificing ourselves to idols. Thank God, he has an antidote to purge us from such a sin. He wants to help us, to revive and save us; so He calls us to, "Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy." He is turning our hearts towards Him and away from those things that will destroy us. We must heed the call so we can live. He went further to say, "I am the Lord your God." He is calling us back to the God who created all things out of nothing; the one who lovingly formed and made us; who provides and protects us. We must respect, honour and exalt Him. He is calling us to holiness, because He is Holy. Let us choose to separate ourselves from the things of the world and live in total obedience to God. Be holy in your worship and in your conversation as we look to the Holiest of Holiness.
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'But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you' (Matthew 6:33). The Lord is our Provider and knows all that we are in need of before we even ask. We do not need to worry or fret ourselves about what we shall eat or drink. Our Father in heaven will take care of these things we need. We are told by Jesus, 'To seek first the kingdom of God.' What does that mean? It means we should lean on, and trust in the grace of Jesus Christ. We should repent of our sins and have a desire to turn away from it. We should seek to put God first in our praise to Him, in our worship of Him, to put our total trust in Him and to rely on Him rather than ourselves or others. We need to seek Him first in our reassurance and acknowledging who He is and what He can do. We also need to seek God's righteousness by loving our neighbors and feeding the poor and destitute, seek justice for the vulnerable. We should put God's plan and...
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