Week Eight - Day Three: End of Day

The secondary meaning of holiness is moral purity. God is perfectly pure morally (and in every other way). This is also the primary emphasis behind the Biblical exhortations for you and me to be holy. It is a challenge for us to be above reproach morally. But our holiness also involves the idea that we are set apart and different from the world around us. Let’s end our day by reflecting on some of what Peter tells us about this. As you hear God use Peter’s voice to encourage us to be holy, notice how we are called to be morally pure, but also notice that we are called to be different from our culture.

1 Peter 1:13-16

“(13) Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. (14) As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. (15) But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’”

1 Peter 2:9-12

“(9) But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (10) Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

(11) Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (12) Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.”

Lights out!