In church on Sunday we were declaring the Lord as holy. We sang those words over and over again, holy, holy, holy, the Lord is holy. As we were singing the Lord showed me what it means that He is holy. He said, “Holy means transparent, without darkness, without wickedness, no sin, see through, nothing hidden.” He then said to me, “Did I not say you are to be holy as I am holy?”

I stood there in worship stunned, thinking we have been taught we cannot be holy for it means we are to be without sin and we have been so indoctrinated that we are sinners we cannot even fathom being holy. Yet, the Lord says, we are to be holy as He is holy. We are to be transparent as He is transparent; we are to be forgiving as He is forgiving; we are to be without darkness as He is all Light.

He would not tell us to be something that was impossible for us to be, but to be holy as He is holy takes humility. If we are not humble we cannot be holy. Holiness is not the absence of sin, it is the immediate confession of it to God and to each other so we can be free, forgiven and holy as He is holy. (1 John 1:9)

I am concerned we have become too comfortable with sin, darkness, unforgiveness, jealousy, bitterness, anger, perversion, gossip, hatred, adultery, idolatry and division, that we just accept it as the way it is. No this is not the way it is, nor is it the way it should be. Humanism has taught us to blame others, accuse others, as though humanism is God. Humanism is self-protection, not God’s direction. We must repent for being humanistic.

Malachi 3 says, “I the LORD do not change!” We find great security in this as we should, but we are also to not change, for the next verses speak about how the people changed their mind about God and following Him. We love that God does not change but we are okay with us changing how we treat others. This is hypocrisy and not acceptable in the kingdom of God. We must be holy as He is holy. No other standard is biblical, nor is it acceptable to the Lord. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org