This post is just a little addition to the last one, you have look over the previous one to fully understand this one...I'll be posting another video soon to continue the series...

Holiness is not about living up to a standard of moral excellence, that standard of perfection is unattainable, Jesus even says so when talking about eternal  life with the rich young man when he says, "with man this is impossible..."  "...But, with God all things are possible."  That BUT is where perfect Holiness meets imperfect dirt and dust.  
Grace is our entrance into Holiness, to Perfection, which means in order to begin to live a perfectly Holy life we must first recognize how imperfect and not Holy we are.  Further, we must continually recognize our unworthiness outside of God's Provision in order for Grace to have its full work in us, and in order for Holiness to take full effect.  So, being perfect starts with realizing how imperfect we are, and ends with us being made fully like Christ.
In God's Way of doing things, frailty is strength, brokenness is healing, and desperation is devotion.  Holiness is not something we achieve, it's something we live into, it's a state or way of living and it's not that we don't achieve it in this life..its that we can't.  He did though!  He is Holy, if we live in Him, we are Holy too.  Like I said in the last post, I can't know Him and I can't know Holiness fully, but at the same time, I do know Him, and I am Holy!  Thank you Father!

Sorry for the long delay, but I promise to make it up to you.  Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be doing a series where every few days I'll post a song and some thoughts of how it's impacted me; what it's made me think about, lyrics that are especially poignant, etc...  Music impacts my life in so many ways, it changes the way I see things often, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts

First, check out this song by Addison Road called "What do I know of Holy" .  Thoughts will be below...

First off, I'm very challenged by the Truth that for all that I think I know about God, I really know about as much as a one cell amoeba knows about the mysteries of the universe.  My knowledge of God, even after being in church for much of my life and spending four years in seminary studying Theology and the Bible, is like a grain of sand on a beach or a piece of salt in the ocean.  I am infinitely small compared to an infinitely big God.  


Further, my understanding of Holy and how to live that out is similarly flawed and incomplete.  Here's Holy...God in flesh EMBRACING the cross...the Father GIVING His ONLY Son...that's the heart of Holiness...the heart of God.  I love that in the song, she admits that just catching of glimpse of who he "might be" is enough to change everything.  Of course we can know things about God, but can you even fathom or begin to understand love that NEVER ends or fails?  


I can say with confidence that I know God...that I love God, and I can say with confidence that I can't even imagine the fullness  and depth of an eternal God.  I do and don't know God, but He knows me in every way.  To me, the limitless riches of Grace and the complete mysteriousness of our Father are what make me fall in love with Him more and more.  I can't know Him fully, I'll never understand eternal Love, and at the same time in the depths of my heart and soul, at the core of who I am...I know Him!  That's Holy...infinite God makes Himself available to little me.


Understanding that sheds a whole new light on living a Holy life.  Maybe it's less about me being Holy and more about Him making me Holy...making me more loving, giving, gentle, compassionate, caring, gracious, etc...  Holiness is more about what He does in me and less about what I do or don't do.  Maybe Holiness is more feeding tbe hungry and less feeding my materialism, more giving my time and less TV time, more seeking out those hardest to love and less spending all my time with those easiest for me to love.  


At the same time...what do I know of Holy?  Let me know what you think of the song.