"Father, help me see Your holiness. I have no concept of what that means, let alone how it is expressed. Leviticus 11:44 says, "For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; neither shall ye defile yourselves...." Strong's Hebrew Dictionary - HOLY - #6918 Defined as: sacred - to be clean"
So all day I have pondered holiness. I have considered what makes God holy. I have thought that it is His complete absence of defilement, His "ultra-cleanliness". I have meditated on the possibility of me being holy. Not possible, I am "über-dirty". I decided that in my own power I cannot be holy, God will have to do it. But I can follow His prescription, "neither shall ye defile yourselves...."
So at my meal I refrained from defiling my stomach with an overload of food. I did the dishes as "unto God", carefully making sure all semblance of defilement was removed. I spoke to my husband with words of grace, preventing defilement in my tone and content. But then I checked facebook and opened an ad about upcoming legislation. In what seemed like a twinkling of my eye, I was defiled. I did not expect it, but there it was creating a stain on my soul. Another spot in an already tainted fabric.
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18) That promise brings relief and comfort. God can clean this dirty soul. "I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." (Psalm 27:13) I believe that in this land He will make me perfectly clean.
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