Topic: Personal Holiness
Text: I Peter 1:13-23

We can draw lots of analogies from the relationship between husband and wives to understand the relationship between the sanctified and the Lord. When you become sanctified you become the Lord’s holy bride. God’s purpose is to “present to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish”. (Ephesians 5:27). One important thing visible in the life of the sanctified is that she seeks to please her Husband. The sanctified one is always looking for ways to please the Almighty God. 2 Timothy 2:4 says: “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” When God chooses you, He expects you to please Him. How do you please God? You have to find out what He loves so as to do it to please Him. Many of us who claim to be sanctified often seek to please men. Galatians 1:10 has this to say: “For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” If your life is still controlled by what people say, then you are not sanctified. Many of us dress to please man rather than God. We dress to show that we have arrived. Furthermore, the sanctified uses her Husband as a standard. Many Christians still use other Christians as their standard. This is why they remain baby-Christians. The Bible says, in I Peter 1:15-16: “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, be ye holy; for I am holy.” Make God you standard. The demand of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:48 is a serious one. The more you walk with God the more you are likely to discover that you need to work on yourself. The closer you get to Him, the dirtier you appear. This is why the sanctified person will never become proud. It is those who know nothing about God who boast. Today, I challenge you to examine yourself. Are you holy? Do you manifest the qualities of sanctification?

Memory Verse: II Timothy 2:4 - “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier”.