DAY 757 - How to Become Holy? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

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Bible Study

     Peter tells us about the importance of being holy in yesterday's passage. Today, he wants to tell us how to become holy. 

Let's take a look at what Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :

      
      That is the controlling image of this section: the baby that has recently been born and now needs to feed, to grow, and to learn to live within the family.  Becoming a Christian is about the new life within us first coming to birth, then being nourished and sustained, then growing to maturity.  That last stage is marked, as it should be for a growing child, with the discovery that there are good ways and bad ways of relating to those around you.  You have to learn to choose the first and renounce the second…
     The good way is the way of eager, pure, sincere love (1.22), and the bad way is that of deceit, hatred, malice and evil-speaking (2.1).  That wasn't hard to figure out, was it?  But it is, of course, hard to do.  And that's why we need the 'spiritual milk', the real stuff.  All too often it gets watered down, perhaps by preachers thinking to be 'kind' and not wanting to make too many demands all at once.  Then the spiritual baby fails to grow properly, and, like a malnourished child, may become spiritually listless and helpless.  A true, strong, vital relationship with the Lord is the key.

N.T. Wright. The Early Christian Letters for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.57.

      Do you understand what James wants to tell you? Have you been enjoying the Word of God like spiritual milk so that you can grow properly? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: How to become holy?

    The message I got from Jesus today is another reality check after yesterday's challenge to become holy. 

     I do think that every Christian wants to become holy. Every Christian wants not to live a life full of "all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander." (2.1)But, to live a life full of "sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart," (1.22).   

     How to become the second one and not the first one. Peter tells us that the only way is for us to enjoy drinking God's word everyday like a baby drinking milk from his/her mother. 

     Do you know how intimate it is when a baby is drinking milk from his/her mother. So, the key and secret to become holy is not only reading the Bible but to read it in a way like a baby drinking milk from his/her mother.

     How can you become holy?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be able to develop that intimate personal relationship with you so that we can become holy.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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Rev. Nicky Gumbel's daily devotion: Bible in One Year
http://www.htb.org.uk/bioy