Take off your sandals, you are on holy ground. Don’t bring the world into the kingdom. God said I am holy, you will be holy also. To abide, to commune we as new creations must, as the word and the Spirit say: with a “clean” heart, working out our salvation with fear and trembling (not taking our salvation lightly). We armor up and resist the devil for the God of love and righteousness is completely holy and wants to have this intimate relationship with man (created in his image).
His plan involving our choices has us as position-ally perfect and practically desiring to move more and more in alignment with that reality. When you realized through the Spirit of God your need and who Jesus is and were born of that Spirit you were no longer “a wretch like me”. Your identity is a child of the most high God.
Now the word tells us of sin and repentance, even for the child of God. As we continue to push in and make God number one declaring him as wives, fathers, workers in the world, we crucify the flesh . How? By dwelling with Him. Be there “if you love me you will keep my commandments” and He will give us the Holy Spirit. So we have what we need, in the written word and the Spirit to live as Jesus has called us to live. We need to decide to do it.
Finally, it is so important to remember you are a member of a body. We need to bind together, be accountable to each other, serve each other and above all else love each other.
Biblical Thoughts for Meditation 