TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE

There is a famous quote from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and dates from 1798 that says “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”:

All around us, everywhere we look there is sin. Sometimes it feels like we are 1 tiny drop of water in a big ocean. How does the born again child of God live a holy life?

The word tell us in
II Cor. 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

I John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Rom. 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Child of God, it is a choice that you must personally make each and every day of your life. I Thessalonians 5:22 says “Abstain from all appearance of evil”.
To abstain simply means to separate yourself from it, don’t be a part of or partake of it.

You must make a choice who you will obey, God or Satan.
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The things of the world are all around us. We cannot escape the evil and sin of this world, but we don’t have to participate in it. You are here because God has placed you here in this world. You are to be a light shining in the darkness.

There is an old hymn “What you Are” and the words are:
“What you are speaks so loud, that the world can’t hear what you say,
The’re looking at your walk, not listening to your talk,
The’re judging from your actions everyday.
Don’t believe that you deceive,
By claiming what you’ve never know.
They’ll accept what they see and know you to be.
They’ll judge from your life alone.”

I love the old saying and I’m not even certain exactly how to quote it or who wrote it, but it says, You may be the only Bible/Sermon someone ever sees.

My friend, you are a chosen vessel that God wants to use to bring the lost to him by using you as an example of him. Is you’re life a holy shining example of God to those around you?