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To be holy means to be set aside or distinguised for a special purpose. E.g., I have certain pants that I only wear to mow the lawn. That's what makes them special. Although the pants have grass stains on them, I see them as being perfect for what they're designed to do. Likewise, for me to be holy means that God has put me aside for a special purpose. Moreover, He sees me as being blameless [through Christ] for what He's called me to do. Though everyone else can see my "grass stains," God sees me as being just what He needs to do His will.
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Q3. (Ephesians 1:4) What does it mean to be "holy"? In what sense can you stand "blameless" before God?
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Pickledilly,
Your thoughts really helped me see how amazing it is that God has adopted me, and THAT I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! I spoke with some friends last night who have taken in a 13-yr old girl. They did it because they wanted to help her, not because she was deserving (she's actually really rough around the edges). God's love is really mindboggling.
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I am eternally grateful that my relationship as a child of the heavenly Father is not by chance or accident in any way. His love for me existed before I ever existed. He chose to provide the way for my sin to be overcome so that I would be acceptable and restored to Him. When I received that Way as my own, He deliberately chose to adopt me and fully integrate me into His family. I didn't do anything to deserve such lavish favor. It was all His doing. From what I know of adoption of a child by human parents, that is pretty much the same. Those parents provide the way to take a child not naturally born to them as their own for no other reason than they intentionally choose to out of love. It doesn't generate from the adopted child, but from the adoptive parents.
This truly is an encouraging concept. Again, it doesn't depend on me. And thank goodness it doesn't! I would never be able to make myself acceptable to God on my own. Only His loving grace accomplishes that. Nothing else could ever make me feel so special or give me such a sense of valued worth as being specifically chosen by the very Creator of all things. Oh, that I could truly receive and grasp such life-changing truth! It is humanly impossible for me to envision or imagine all the rights, privileges, and resources that are mine because I have been given His name, legally sealed as His own, and made His heir. This gives me supreme encouragement and confidence and strength and hope to live like His child instead of an orphan. In this, my future is filled with promise and purpose - and secure joy.
Also, I never have to experience any loneliness or seclusion of being an "only child". I am part of an incredible family of "siblings" in Christ. We are all equipped to be a support structure for each other. We are all to be a fountain of life and love to each other and with each other to the world's lost waifs. We are all eternally united together in one Spirit that supercedes our differences. What a tremendous family gathering awaits us one day in our Father's house as we're reunited with those we've known and introduced to all our "distant" relatives we never got to meet on earth!
Q1. In Christ
in 1. 1 Spiritual Blessings in Christ (Ephesians 1:1-6)
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I like that, Kathy....clothed by Him & covered by Him. I think about being inside a robe or something like that.
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What impacts me is that when I sin, I hurt a part of Him since I'm in Him. It's like if my tooth hurts, I'm keenly aware of it because it's in me. I see the same with Christ. It makes me more sensitive to how I conduct my affairs because I do not want to bring him pain.
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