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| Leviticus
20.7 (NIV) “Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.” |
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| No man can make himself pure by obeying laws.* |
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Consecration
is the procedure for making something holy. In the Old Testament, God’s people
could attain a state of temporary holiness by observing the rituals and
sacrifices required by the law. Today, people of God strive for “moral
holiness” for the same reasons that the Israelites did: because God is holy.
We
tend to miss the mark, however, because we are tolerant of a certain amount of sin in ourselves, and in others, depending on who they are and what they’ve done. God’s holiness is not
compatible with tolerance. We can’t come into his presence with just a little
bit of sin on us or mask our sin with make-up. It must be washed completely
away. On our own, we do not have the power to consecrate ourselves. On our own,
we are not holy, but he has made it possible for us to approach him through the
blood of his Son.
Once
something becomes holy, it should
stay that way. But because we are human and weak, we can lose our state of
holiness. The good news is that Jesus’ blood is “a mighty solvent”* and it flows freely. We don’t
have to understand it to benefit from it – we only have to accept it and apply
it.
Are
you washed in the blood?
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| The destined end of man is not happiness, not health, but holiness.* |
*Quote sources available upon request.
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