HOLINESS: The Pathway To Your Desired Destination.

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There are part ways to a desired destination in life. All the enemy does is to put obstruction along those ways. If there is obstruction along your path, the logical thing to do is to move higher than it, then the obstruction will cease to be.

How Then Do You Move Higher?

In 1 Thessalonian 4:1-3, scriptures says "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For this is the will of God even your sanctification". There is a way to walk in, to become "more and more" and to move higher than any spiritual obstruction along your pathway, that way is the way of sanctification which is also called HOLINESS. How deep u are in this way determines whether or not you will get "more and more".

In Isaiah 35, the way of getting "more and more" by virtue of dealing with obstruction is described. For instance in verse 7-5, we are told "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dump sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the patch ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water...". In what way will the above happen? In verse 8 of Isaiah 35, we are told "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and he shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it...". What a wonderful way to clear up obstructions and get "more and more" it is called the way of holiness.

David was deep in this way, to the point he won't slay or kill his enemy (Soul) seeking his life to destroy; and eventually Soul, as an obstruction to his pathway to the throne was cleared away. Joseph was so deep in this way to the point he won't commit immorality with Potiphars wife; though he was eventually imprisoned, yet walked from prison to the palace. Job was also deep in this way to the point he prayed for his miserable comforter friends and his captivity was turned and he had twice as much as he had before; and his later end was more blessed than his beginning.

Most of your obstructions are there because you don't behave like God, being holy. God is holy and he said, "Be ye holy even as I am holy". When you live holy like God nothing from the pits of hell shall be able to obstruct you. In Hebrews 12:14 scripture says "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord". To enjoy "more and more" from the Lord here on earth entails holiness. Sin creates barriers, but holiness clears them off your path. Purity is the pathway to our destination. Jesus' longest prayer in scripture for his disciples and subsequently those who will believe him through the word is that of sanctification.

He prayed in John 17:17, "Sanctify them with thy truth, thy word is truth". Purity is the mother of the dignity. In Matthew 6:33, we are enjoined; "Seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you". Righteousness is a capital key to the kingdom, if you don't have it, the kingdom of God will not open to you. Even though we have the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, yet we have a personal responsibility to practically live righteously; when you live righteously you change levels. Holiness is not automatic. The only way to live more is to do more.

Tips to live more holy

  1. Pray more: As you stay more on the altar of prayer, you access more grace to live holy. When you pray more, you become more like God

  2. Study more: God's word washes us like water from all debris, junks and sinful habits. Jesus said " Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." John 15:3.

  3. Fellowship the more: fellowship the more with the Holy Spirit. When you do, you contact and partake of his holy nature. Obstructions are very weak; all you need to do is to confront it with your lifestyle of holiness. Purity is a capital price for pulling down strongholds. You may be living righteously before, but this is a call to live more righteously, in order to get "more and more" from God.

Remember, Godliness is profitable unto all things, in this life and in the life to come, 1 Timothy 4:7-8. You have nothing to lose, but everything to gain by living Godly.

Shalom!

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