HIS VOICE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
FRIDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER 2023
TOPIC: THE DEEDS OF HOLINESS III
TEXT: COLOSSIANS 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. KJV
The character or attitude that sums up a holy living is love. It is referred to as the bond of perfectness, which means the height of perfection or the best way to live a perfect life. Jesus gave an instruction in Mathew 5:48; he said Be you perfect as your Father in heaven his perfect. He directed our heart to perfection as the nature of God. He demanded that we as the children of God live in accordance to God's nature.
And just as we have earlier established, we are able to live in accordance to the nature of God because he gave us his nature which is holiness. Thus, Jesus in the same understanding lay a command on God's personality and identity in us, as God's children. Holiness describes the personality of God, which is the height of perfection.
Also it is imperative to note that in Mathew 4:43-47, before the commandment to be perfect in verse 48, Jesus taught about the ability of a child of God to love his enemies, bless those who curse him, do good to them that hate him and pray for them who despitefully use him and persecute him. He affirmed that these characters and attitudes constitute God's nature. He send his rain on the just and the unjust and does good to the kind and unkind.
God's love is perfection. It is holiness from which a man is able to birth the right and acceptable character. Thus, without God who is holy and have called us unto himself in holiness, it is impossible to live holy and would be wrong to demand holiness in character from men. The scripture established that all the righteousness of a man is like a filthy rag. Which depicts that man in himself has no righteousness and cannot live righteously. No matter the level of good conduct learnt and exhibited, without God and before him it is filthiness.
Why is this so? No man in the flesh can please the Lord.(Romans 8:8) Nothing in the strength of a man is pleasing to God not until he breathe on it by his Spirit, man is himself unacceptable before God in character and nature.
But thanks be to God, we are saved; therefore are not in the flesh. (Romans 8:9) The Spirit of God lives in us and the breath of the Almighty has changed us to his own, we are full of his grace and mercy. Thus, because he is holy, we are holy. Separate unto him through which we live acceptably before him in deeds and thoughts. Hallelujah!
PRAYER
Thank you Father. I belong to you and my expectations are from you. I live acceptably unto you because you have separate me unto you. I live holy, righteous and perfect in love towards others in Jesus' name. Amen
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