He Makes You Holy

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

~ 1 Thessalonians 5-23 ~

Too often people believe that they are not worthy to approach God. They believe they are too sinful or too dirty. They believe that because of the “horrible” things they've done, God doesn't want them. Here’s the truth, we aren't worthy; we are too unclean; we are too full of fault to step into the presence of the Almighty, but the more important truth is that He does want us. He desires to bring us into His presence and to do that He aims to make us holy.

Hearing the word holy causes many of us to think of it as this unattainable level of perfection. But it’s not unattainable. Holy in this instance means a couple different things. First it is us being “set apart”. We are set apart from the world. We are made different. When we accept and believe the work of Christ on the cross, we are made blameless, standing before God as His own (pure and untarnished), thus not belonging to the world anymore. This is not a prideful setting apart and actually is centered on the humbling of our hearts. The second is that He continues that work in us. The work that God does in us, through Jesus, keeps us blameless so that He can bring us into His presence without fault (Jude 1:24). This is not to say that it is an easy process. God will remove things from your life, ask you to do other things you’ve not done before and essentially completely change everything about who you were in the past. It will take intentionality on your part, but He is faithful and will do His good work in you (1 Corinthians 1:8-9).

He makes you holy, so #ApproachGod.