How important is holy living?

[zaccinyak]

Have you noticed that there seems to be a lack of righteousness among believers today?

[Teri Mc]

Hi Zac I think your right. And the more time I spend getting to know and love God the easier it gets. We are sinners and the point being we in of ourselves can not overcome this. We need the help of Christ and the Holy Spirit. And yes it not only becomes natural it becomes desireable. Before I found the Lord or He grabbed me I thought a christian life would be boring. I had some hurdles to overcome but as He lifted me up to the challenge I became more enlightened and energized and amazed that God was actually removing these desires from me. I think we all develope a God conciense, also it would be called nudgings from the Holy Spirit. Ultimately we still have the choice to listen or ignore. The key is loving God and with that having the desire to please Him because of the love we feel for Him. Being a decent human being motivated by love becomes wonderful not disaplined. Sorry I'm rambling, this is probably my favorite subject. We could read scripture until we're blue in the face but if we never build that relationship and experience His love it is all uphill and more than likely we will backslide. Think of the length a person will go to when they first experience love outside of their family unit. That is what Christ askes of us, to keep that love alive and to go to the length that love inspires in us. Hope I'm making sense.

A truly devoted lover of Christ

Teri

[Guest Xan]

We must become holy because G-d is Holy.  So many Christians run around saying, "I can do that.  I'm not under the law." or "I don't do that, I'm not under the law."  What about allowing G-d to make us in His image- the image of Holiness?

[Lanakila]

I have heard that the Christian never becomes sinless but that as we grow in our relationship to the Lord we sin less.  

[Jaeson]

The followers fo The Way (Early followers of Christ) were first called Christians (which means Christ like) in the city of Antioch.  I think this is something we all strive for, to be like Him though we sometimes fall short.

God Bless,

Jaeson

[Teri Mc]

And I might add God will make us Holy in His image if we are willing. Lan that was a good way to put that, have you noticed how you just slipped into living with less sin. Or at least I did. My desire to sin became less the closer I became to God, now much of it repulses me. I used to spend alot of time in the seedier part of the world. On occassion, weddings and such I have had to go to a bar, I get through it and I say it that way because the whole time I'm there I don't feel like I belong. I feel like an alien. I could never go back to that life style. I do not take credit for the lack of desire for that life style because there was a time I couldn't live without it. God took that desire away from me and replaced it with yuk. He opened my eyes to the emptiness it holds. Thats just one example and God had quite the job to do with me when I first gave myself to Him. What amazes me to this day is how hard I tried to do it myself for years and He just cleaned things up neatly in no time flat. I'm not kidding, some people from my past have accused me of having a brain transplant, I am so completely different now.

Love in Christ

Teri

[Guest EPHRIAM777]

Eph writes...

Problem is the Lord only has failures to choose from down here...! He's not worried about YOUR performance anyhow..He only looks at his SON'S performance..! So don't get hung up on your "short fallings'...!

[CWJ]

So.....we can do whatever we feel in our heart is OK with God?

Or need we look to the instruction booklet on "How to be a Christian"?(bible)

Or do we ignore it? Cause of grace?

So Eph....what's it gotta be?

[angels4u]

Carl,

I don't think that's what he ment.

As a Christian God does look to us trough the eyes of His Son and He does see us without sin (forgiven) if we have accepted Jesus as our Savior.

I agree with Terry, that we have to be willing to let Him change us and we have to surrender ALL the time.

How more and how closer we come to Him how more sin will bother us , the Holy Spirit will convict us. If the Holy Spirit does not convict us from sin then there is something wrong in our relationship with God.

Remember what Paul said about sin?

Solong we live in this body we will sin, but we have a Heavenly Father who will forgive us when we repent and ask Him to forgive us.

Angels

[tsth]

I can relate to the current lack of righteousness (that should be manifest through Jesus Christ).