A devotional from Angela Leyba
When I met Jesus, my tendency toward perfectionism collided with my sinfulness, which the re-collided with the call on my life to be “holy” with my thoughts and actions. I don’t think I am alone in this struggle, and my prayer today is to break this whole “holiness” thing down and learn how to worship God through it.
Leviticus 20 speaks to this call to holiness: “Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.” (v.7) In this passage, God warns His people to stay far away from cultural practices that are not of Him. God lays it out very simply: if what is going on around us is not of Him, then we need to stay away from it, to stand apart from what the world is doing – not simply because we have to, but because we want to, as an act of worship. We are called to live holy lives because we love God enough to trust that what He asks of us is for our good and His glory.
In these places of perfectionism and failure, I sense God whispering to me, “Sweet child, you worship me through holiness by coming to me over and over again and allowing Me to make you clean.” This is why Jesus came: to make us holy and bring us back into right relationship with Him.
This is our true act of worship: to submit ourselves daily to our loving God, and to consecrate every part of our lives to Him. Even this we cannot do apart from the Holy Spirit in us. Let us then worship God freely, hands raised high and hearts wide open, knowing that both the holiness we possess and the holiness we pursue has been made possible through God alone.
– Excerpts from Worship Through Holiness, Marie Furlough
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