Living Right!

Therefore, since we have these [great and wonderful] promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, completing holiness [living a consecrated life--a life set apart for God’s purpose] in the fear of God. 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1 AMP

God has promised us his Presence, his Power, his Protection, and several other attributes of his amazing nature. All he asks of us is that we depend on him for grace to live right and away from sin. Sin is a destroyer, a hindrance to all God can be in a person's life.

How can I avoid sin? It is only by a daily, constant dependence on the help of the Holy Spirit. If God enters into a covenant with us, promising us his presence, and warning us away from sin, how can we ever think that he will keep only one half of the contract? How do we expect that he will continue to remain with us, while we continue to live in sin? I must avoid all contamination of body and spirit; I must dedicate my life completely to living a consecrated life, giving myself wholly to God's direction and use. At no time can my natural self do any of these; this is not something you do by strength or physical exertion; it is only possible as I daily depend on God for strength.

I go to God today, and confess my shortcomings, inabilities and inadequacies before him. I cannot please God by physical exertion; I cannot measure up to his standard by my own strength. I ask for his grace and power to live right, and to showcase God's amazing power and nature through the purity and consecration that his Spirit alone can birth in my life. His time of favour is here.