A Call to Purity

Romans 6 v12 (ESV) ''let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions ''

A few weeks ago a friend surprised me with his view on what Christianity should be and how we should conduct ourselves as Christians. He held the view that as a Christian you do not have to change the way in which you live, '' God desires us to come as we are''. He further stated that Christianity is not about changing who you are but believing in God to give you grace regardless of the way you live.
I was absolutely amazed at the way he viewed Christianity but I soon came to the realisation that this view is shared by so many so-called believers all over the world. So I took the opportunity to sit back and reflect on what true Christianity is and I began to realise that throughout the entire bible, God always requires perfection and Holiness. When one goes through the old Testament we see that God always required a sacrifice that was without any blemish or impurity. The new Testament is no different, first of all God sent Jesus Christ to come die for us, this was the best and purest sacrifice God could make for us to be saved and anything less would not have been sufficient to save us.

 Romans 12 v 1 (ESV) ''...to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship''.
As already mentioned earlier, God has always placed a requirement of purity when it comes to sacrifice so when we present the sacrifice that we ought to present, it has to be pure. As a result there are a lot of things that a believer cannot find themselves doing because they know their duty is to stay pure. The way of living as a believer cannot be the same as that of the world, the believer should not strive to fit in with the world because we are after all not of it... the world should look towards the believers and be attracted to them because of the light that they emit.

Worldly standards should not be found amongst us, as a believer, one should hate sin, they should hate the thought of sinning.
God desires to come to Him as we are, but if you stay the way you were before coming to Christ then it means that you have not been walking with God.

Romans 6 v 4 (ESV) ''We were buried therefore with Him (Christ) by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life ''

 Carry your cross, seek purity and strive to be who God wants you to be... never be tempted to conform to the world but stand firm.

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”  - David Platt

God bless

~Kev n' Hannah