Take time to be Holy...

Take time to be Holy. The word Holy does not mean 'goody-goody/nicey nice'; as in smiling to be affable, smiling to appear sincere, or kind to people 'clients' because its your job. For the Christian, it means set apart for sacred use by God. Not you 'creating' some work/help that you think will make you holy in God's eyes or look holy in front of others. It requires time set aside for communion with God. As you do, you become cleansed by His Holy Spirit who is thus able to do in and through you awesome and immeasurably more than you ask or imagine ~ Jesus is Calling: Sarah Young 2004.

Being holy means being in His Will. We are not to pick and choose our duty, but must aim at standing complete in all the will of God. And the nearer our lives and tempers are to the precepts of God's law, the happier shall we be, and the happier shall we make all around us, and the better shall we adorn the gospel...Matthew Henry 

Reading 1 Thessalonians 4: 1-12. ~ That is why we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more. For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; and no one should ever exploit or take advantage of his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness. Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit. 

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. And indeed, you are showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you. Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone. 

Yes, and always remember The disciples asked, Lord what must we do to perform the works of God, Jesus answered, "Believe in the One who Sent Me." In this way we are committed to taking time to be Holy, taking time to walk with God, to do His Will. We do not have to add anything to that which Jesus declared