; and to be holy without holiness no one will see the Lord.”
Hebrews 12:14 (NIV)
The writer of Hebrews gives us a difficult command—to live
in peace with each other. He then instructs us to make every effort to do this.
We can only do this through the grace we have from God.
The writer continues with his command that we are to be
holy. When something is deemed holy, that object has been set apart for His
service. When we choose to work for the Kingdom, He sets us apart for His
service.
Next, the writer says something that, on the surface puzzled
me when I began to study His Word. He tells his readers, then and now, that if
we don’t treat ourselves as set apart for His Kingdom, none of us will see the
Lord.
We need to look upon the different tasks we do for our
churches as doing it for the Lord. The list of those tasks might include
nursery duty, greeting people, working at a fund raiser, working in the
kitchen, mowing the yard. Trimming the bushes, or cleaning the facilities.
In the book of first Peter (2:9),he tells us, “But you are a
chosen people, a royal priesthood, A HOLY NATION, a people belonging to God,
that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light.”
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That is indeed a very interesting scripture Cecelia, thanks for pointing it out. I'll have to study it in my Dutch Bible...
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