Someone has said “We need to confess our addiction to morality and the appearance of godliness…Jesus is holy which means different without being sinful?” What do you think?
2 Peter 1:5-7 gives us a great MOT for our faith as Peter calls on the believers to make every effort to add to their faith things that are the marks of true godliness and religion and its frippery does not appear once. Yet why so often do we end up weighing someones godliness based on appearance rather than self-control and on attendance rather than moral excellence. It is because hardwired into our hearts is the Pharisee, religion is our default setting.
Yet the Bible continually calls on us to radically revise how we view living for God, it is not about doing set things for him or for show it is about increasingly becoming like him, conformed to the family image.
It means I can be just as holy in a pub as in a church, just as Jesus was perfectly holy when eating with a swindler or a prostitute as when he was in the temple.
That realisation is to liberate me to live in every situation for God's glory in God's power through his spirit.
No comments:
Post a Comment