Category: Jesus Character

Fashion your life after the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t live your life after the old pattern. . . . Seeing you are “born again,” live like it.

Henrietta Mears

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Holiness or Sin-Cake

God’s Word says, “Just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do” — 1 Peter 1:15

In the beginning,
there was only God,
only holiness.
Those days are long gone.
Now there are two ways:
holiness and sin.
We have chosen sin.

(It was a bad choice.)

But, God is recruiting,
wooing all from sin, and
winning some back to Him.
Some are, you might say,
crossing over to His side
and gathering round
a mighty Captain who
will always be their guide.

(He never chose sin.)

Of course, a holy God is
wholly other, wholly different
from a sinful world, so all
who cross back over must
learn to be different too.
It’s one way or the other:
either set apart from God
and more and more like sin,
or set apart from the world
and more and more like Him.

(There simply is no way
to have a holy God
and eat our sin-cake too.)

Devotional poem © 2016 Michael Himick. Used with permission.

Reaching for Holiness

We’ve been looking at Hebrews 12:14, and seeing that without holiness no one will see the Lord. Here’s a devotional poem from Christ-follower Rena Himick seeing the same. It’s called “Reaching for Holiness.”

Father, your will
is for me
to be holy —
holiness is
what I need
to live free.

Jesus,
make me holy
so I can
experience
the Father.

Without holiness,
no one can
see you, Lord —
see you
in me.

Surely I fall short
of any holiness at all.
But with your Spirit
deep within,
I can reach
and not fall.

Devotional poem © 2016 Rena Himick. Used with permission.

There never lived a man, yet, who was too holy, and there never will live a man who will imitate Christ too closely, or avoid sin too rigidly!

Charles Spurgeon