Holiness- 1 Peter 1:15-16

(15)But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

(16)for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Holiness is so much more than reading your Bible every day, and praying for an hour to be able to say you are a good "holy" Christian. When God said "Be holy as I am holy", it was so much more than read your Bible and be good. He was talking about being consecrated and set apart to Him, set apart not only from the world but also from religious activity.

God is so good!! He wants us to spend time with Him and be like Him, and we can't just automatically be like God, we have to work hard to grow in our relationship with Him. He wants us to be able to just sit, still and enjoy His presence and just be with HIM. He is so in love with us, and He is a jealous God. To know Him we must give ourselves to Him, and learn His word. The problem in the church is we often just read for 20 minutes and pray for like 5 and we think we are intimate with God when we don't truely know Him, or we don't trust Him with absolutely everything and when hard times come we think we can just trust in ourselves and things of this world when the truth is we are citizens of heaven.

He wants us so desperately to be holy TO HIM, too many people are holy in their own eyes. Have you ever just stopped and thought about what true holiness is? Have you ever asked God and listened to His voice? He is always speaking to us, who has ears to hear?

PRAY for this generation, so many are lost and they do NOT truely know God, they just know about Him. Please be interceding, God will have mercy on those whom He will have mercy and compassion on those whom He will have compassion! Prayer is the most effective, THE MOST EFFECTIVE thing we can do, pray God's word!

I love you guys, and Jesus loves you even more!!

Get into His Word!

-Kasey