Let us seek to be holy people as Christians.

Let us seek to be holy people as Christians.

How can we be holy? We are certainly to avoid sin. Does this mean that we should have no contact with sinful people, or with the world around us?

It is a great mystery and wonder, but God said He would send His Holy Spirit to live in us as believers. So we can have holiness — God’s purity and love and spirit — in our hearts, even when we live in the middle of a world with sin and problems.

So, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, we are not to leave this world — we are to be vessels of God’s saving grace and love to those around us. This does not mean you should be tempted, or put yourself in positions where sin is going on. It does mean that even in a world that is often far from God, we can let the love of Christ shine.

So this week, let us pray that

• God will keep you from temptation — and that you will live filled with God’s holiness
• God will help you be a shining light of Christ’s love to those around you

We are brothers and sisters in the family of God with all true believers in Christ — and are bound together in His love.

“Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.” Psalm 96:9