The Guardian (Nigeria)

Holiness: A Must For Pilgrims On Highway

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Anyone that professes the Christian faith without holiness is an empty vessel. A Christian has no life without practical and transparen­t holiness, which is the life of a believer. Holiness is a call from God, Who has called all believers to holiness and not to uncleannes­s. Holiness is a regular and consistent lifestyle that must be lived on a daily basis.

Holiness covers a wide spectrum of our lives as Christians. The Lord has commanded all believers to be holy in all manner of conversati­ons. A believer that is committed to holy life must not be garrulous. During the marriage ceremony, holiness must prevail. On no account must a believer compromise with unbeliever­s during marriage ceremony. Some Christians succumbed to the pressure of the world and condescend to the level of buying alcohol to appease them. This is most unfortunat­e to say the least!

There is boldness and confidence in holiness. A holy believer stands with his shoulders high to challenge the devil and ugly circumstan­ces in life. He is not afraid of the castigatio­ns of the wicked because he knows the life he lives in the private and open. This virtue is possible with dogged determinat­ion to live a holy life one day at a time. The Lord that commanded us to be holy has also given the grace to live a holy life.

Some practices in some Christian assemblies have been endorsed as the standard. Women have been given ‘ licence’ in some churches to wear trousers and leave their hair open while in the presence of God. This runs contrary to God’s standard of holiness. Anybody who engages in these acts cannot be said to be holy, according to the standard of God’s holiness. Frankly, holiness touches every facet of a Christian life, such as the words of our mouth, our conducts and relationsh­ip with others, the kind of clothes and hairstyles. Holiness rejects in its entirety, the worldly hairdo by women and jewelries. And no justificat­ion will make it align with the approved standard of God’s Word. Earrings and the likes are strange gods before the Almighty God.

Holiness is worth dying for. If it demands shedding your blood to defend holiness, it is a glorious death. Don’t sell your birthright; give your life for holiness.

For further reading: Luke 1: 74- 75; 1 Thess. 4: 7; Malachi 3: 6; 1 John 3: 4; Matt. 5: 48; 1 Peter1: 15- 16; Lev. 11: 44; Titus 2: 11- 15; 1: 2; Deut. 22: 5; 1 Cor. 6: 9; 11: 3- 5; Heb. 12: 1- 2; Psalm 93: 5; Lev. 19: 28, 27; 1 Tim. 2: 9- 10; Gen. 35: 1- 7; Jude 3; 1 Tim. 6: 12; 2 Tim. 4: 11.

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