Greetings,
As we move through the Lenten season, I have been again considering the nature of holiness, and our role as those who are charged to spread “scriptural holiness.”
This poem by Ann Weems again comes to mind.
God’s Holy People
Here we are, you and I,
called to be God’s Holy People.
You say you’re not the holy type,
but I’m not talking abut holier-than-thou.
I’m not talking about religious ritual,
and the last thing I mean is self-righteousness!
Jesus chastised the self-righteous,
the ones who spent their days doing religious thin
the ones who spent so much time in religious ritual
that they didn’t have time for tenderheartedness.
I’m not talking about them;
I’m talking about us.
I’m talking about paying attention
to the things Jesus taught people,
ordinary people, people like you, people like me
Look at the disciples: ordinary people
called to follow,
called to be God’s Holy People.
called to live in this world with tender hearts.
Live holy lives…impossible?
Is anything impossible to God?
That old woman Sarah thought it impossible
to have a child…
The lepers thought it impossible
to be healed…
The disciples thought it impossible
to feed five thousand with two loaves and
five fishes…
Mary and Martha thought it impossible
that their brother Lazarus was alive…
The lame thought it impossible to walk…
The blind thought it impossible to see…
Here we are, ordinary people,
called to be the Holy People of God.
If you have eyes to see and ears to hear,
see and hear God’s holiness in your life.
Of course, as ordinary Holy People, we are also the people called to be sanctified, to be in the process of becoming truly Holy. We must work with the Holy Spirit to burn away all of the sin in our lives, leaving that which is pure and good. Then we can truly do the deeds of holiness, for they will flow from pure hearts and lives.
Yours & His,
DED
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