Understand that you do not need to shut yourself away in a monastery or convent to severe yourself from worldliness. You do exist in the world, and if God did not want you here, God would not have placed you here. Practice self-control. You will never escape temptation, even if you do start exercising holiness in your life. When you face temptation, though, you will need to control the harmful desire to give into it to maintain any degree of holiness. Temptation does not always come in a tangible form.
It is relatively easy for many people to resist the temptation of stealing something from the store or physically hurting someone who angers you. It is much more difficult to resist the root temptations of greed and hate, though. To really practice self-control, you need to do more than simply stopping the obvious sins. You need to guard yourself against the weaknesses of character that can distract you from God.
These weaknesses include things like pride, envy, greed, hate, slothfulness, gluttony, and lust. Do not tolerate sin. Being intolerant of sin also means rejecting it in the world around you, though.
No matter how much you may love someone, when that person sins, you must not make excuses for the sin or accept the sin itself. Words like "intolerance" and "judgment" are often thrown around carelessly and used as criticisms, but the concepts themselves are not wicked. After all, few would claim that it is a bad thing to be intolerant of hate or to judge something as safe or dangerous.
The error lies not with intolerance itself, but how it is practiced. Be intolerant of sin, but do not use that intolerance as a justification for hating others. God is all that is good, and love is good above all else. Be at peace with all men without which no man shall see the Lord.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Do to others as you wish them do to you. Be faithful to yourself by serving God in true sense. Whatever you do to or for the least of God's children you do to The Lord. At the same time, you should not allow the love and sympathy you have for others to blind you to sinfulness. You cannot judge or control the hearts of others, but you should not accept someone else's sin as "right" since doing so damages the purity of your own heart.
Die to self but love who you are. Dying to self means surrendering any desire that is not of God. That being said, God created you to be who you are, so you need not despise your existence. God created you just as you are, which means that you are beautiful just as you are. Your beauty includes all of your struggles, weaknesses, and past mistakes. Even though you are beautiful just as you are, you also need to recognize your struggles and weaknesses for what they are.
Seeking holiness means committing to the practice of leaving these vices behind for the sake of God. Consider working catalysts into your daily routine. Some spiritual practices can serve as catalysts that help propel you toward a holier, more enriched existence. You do not always need to practice these catalysts to be holy, but they may guide you toward holiness when used.
For instance, in order to strive for holiness over the way you view food and eating, you could try fasting for one day, or even for half a day. In some cases, holiness in a certain area of your life cannot be achieved without practicing the catalyst, even though the catalyst itself is not holiness.
For instance, you must love and submit yourself to your spouse in order to have a holy marriage, and you must love your enemies in order to have holy relationships overall. Pray for holiness. Being holy is a difficult task and cannot be done in the absence of God.
Prayer is a powerful resource—one of the most powerful tools available to the believer, in fact—so praying for holiness on a regular basis can help you become and remain holier. Your prayers for holiness do not need to be long, extravagant, or eloquent. Something simple is perfectly fine as long as you pray it from your heart.
For example, your prayer could be as simple as, "God, let me thirst for holiness more than I thirst for worldliness, and make me holy in every aspect of my character and actions. When you desire to live Holy -- dedicated or devoted to the service of God, realizing that you must serve others, you must ask God to help you. Signs of holiness include: Observance of silence and listening; beauty of face and character; mature personality; absence of greed, envy, pride, slothfulness, gluttony, lust and hate; service to the poor; and material and spiritual poverty.
You will know you have reached holiness when the world and its ways are no longer important to you, and your mind and strength are set only on God. Not Helpful 27 Helpful I have sinned a lot, but I realized now I want to be holy. Is it possible to receive holiness in my life? Through God, you can live a holy lifestyle if you allow him to live in and through you.
We humans are never going to be holy. God is holy, and he works through us. Receiving God is receiving holiness. Not Helpful 13 Helpful The gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and wonder in the Lord. Not Helpful 7 Helpful Sanctification comes through God and God alone. There is nothing we as humans can do to achieve this. Our "holiness" came from Jesus' death on the cross. His blood cleansed us of our sins.
Not Helpful 8 Helpful Being holy is respecting the rules God gives you, and handling those rules carefully and correctly. See more words from the same century. Accessed 12 Nov. See the full definition for holy in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Nglish: Translation of holy for Spanish Speakers. Britannica English: Translation of holy for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!
Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of holy. Examples of holy in a Sentence a holy relic worn by one of the saints the holy monk spent many hours on his knees in prayer. Recent Examples on the Web That tradition blended into the Catholic holy days of the dead. First Known Use of holy before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1. Save me from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life. To cooperate with the Lord to be made holy, we need to daily read the Word of God and not resist or argue with the shining we receive from His Word.
Instead, we should agree with it and allow the Word to sanctify us. This healthy fear encourages us to cooperate with the Lord to cleanse ourselves from defilement. How do we do this? Engaging in defiling activities and possessing unclean and sinful things prevent us from being made holy. Cleansing ourselves from all defilement is something God wants us to do so He can continue to impart Himself into us, sanctifying us.
We may look at our condition or our weakness and be discouraged. But we should remember that the Lord lives in us. We can do all things in Him who empowers us , including cooperating with Him to be separated unto God and saturated with Him to be made holy. We simply need to turn to Him and contact Him in our spirit. First, God loved us; then this divine love inspires us to love Him in return.
In such a condition and atmosphere of love, we are saturated with God to be holy and without blemish, just as He is. God loves us, and His love inspires us to love Him in return. Our being made holy by God takes place in this atmosphere of love.
Every day we can freshly experience His love for us, and we can express our love for Him in return. Reading Ephesians with all the accompanying notes in the New Testament Recovery Version will help you see even more about this topic. Subscribe to receive the latest posts. Latest Posts. Have you ever wondered what it means to be holy? Why did God choose us? What it means to be holy The New Testament Recovery Version has a very helpful note on the word holy.
How can we be holy? So how can we cooperate with God to be made holy? By going along with Christ who lives in us First Corinthians says that Christ became sanctification to us from God.
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