February 13, 2023 – Holiness To The Lord

 February 13, 2023
 Daily Reading – Exodus 39-40 / Matthew 26:1-25

 

 GOD’S WORD:

Exodus 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

 

 GETTING INTO GOD’S WORD:

    As Christians we are called by God to be different from the rest of the world. This is known as Holiness. It means to be dedicated specifically for something or separated out of the rest. Christians are called to live a life separated from this world and dedicated to the Lord.

 

    This separation is not in our location from society. How would we ever reach a lost world if we could not share with them how God, through his Son Jesus and His death on the cross saved our soul? In Jesus’ prayer for us in John 17:15 He said, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” Jesus was not praying that we would be taken from the world, but rather that worldliness would be taken out of us. The Bible says that the priests in Exodus had an engraved gold plate attached to the headdress they wore when going before the Lord that read, “HOLINESS TO THE LORD.” It was a statement and reminder of who, and what they were to be. Set apart, dedicated, separated from the sinfulness of the world outside.

 

    In 1 Peter 1:14-15 it tells us how to be Holy. It says; “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;” Live as Jesus did, and for Him.
 

 

 GETTING GOD’S WORD INTO ME:

    Is our life an engraved banner that says we are dedicated to the Lord and separated from worldliness? Does what we do, say, and where we go clearly say “HOLINESS TO THE LORD?”

 

If your life was the banner for HOLINESS what would the world see HOLINESS as?