Daily book quote;
Ephesians 1:1– “Praise be to the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every
spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him
before the creation of the world to be holy
and blameless in his sight.”
We think of words like
“holy and blameless” and we think that holiness is all about being absolutely
sinless and pure, and we don't want to claim that for ourselves. But it is not
that at all.
Holiness means
"wholeness," and wholeness
means "to be restored to the originally intended function" to be put
to the proper use, that's all. Physical wholeness prevails when the body works
the way it was supposed to. And when your whole being functions the way it was intended
to function, you could say you are holy.It is when we begin to understand these words that we can apply them and accept them. Now let's look at the other one, “blameless”. Most people refuse to think of themselves as blameless because they know that they have done many things for which they ought to be blamed. That is, they have made choices, deliberate choices, against light, and against right, against God, and even against knowledge of the consequences. But we confuse this word with another, because it is not sinless. Never having done anything wrong is sinless. But, the Bible says you can be sinful and still be blameless. How? By handling your sin in the right way, and only through Christ.”
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