DIVIDENDS
OF HOLINESS
Memorise:
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground:
for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea 10:12; Read:
Lamentations 3:22-25, Bible in one year: Ezra 1-3, John 4:46-5:18
Everyone saved by the precious Blood of
the Lamb is called to a lifestyle of holiness (1st Thessalonians
4:7). Believe it or not, a lifestyle of holiness pays great dividends. Proverbs
11:19 says:
“As
righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own
death.”
There is therefore a link between
righteousness and life, just as there is a link between sin and death (Romans
6:23). Although God has promised you long life in Psalm 91:16, it is only when
you live holy that this promise can be fulfilled in your life (Psalm 91:14). If
you look close enough, you will discover that most of God’s promises have
conditions attached to their fulfilment. If you live holy, you will easily have
access to long life, but if you live in disobedience or secret sin, you have
moved from life to death. Are you holy? Are you still secretly living in sin?
Repent today and turn a new leaf!
Another dividend of holiness is mercy.
If you sow holiness, you will reap a harvest of God’s mercy. Hosea 10:12 says:
“Sow
to yourself in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for
it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.”
Holiness is a seed. If you sow holiness,
mercy will definitely be part of your harvest. If there is one thing all men
need at all times, it is the mercy of the Most High God. Lamentation 3:22 says
we are alive today not by our efforts or power but by the mercy of God. Just as
holiness is a seed, sin is also a seed. If you sow sin, you will reap judgement and death (2nd Corinthians 5:10). Mercy makes God to relate with you
not on the basis of your sins, but on the basis of Christ’s sacrificial death
and shed blood. Mercy makes God not to give you the punishment you deserve, but
sin ensures you are served what you sowed. Sin ensures God relates with you
only on the basis of your crimes or evils. God has said that the soul who sins
shall die (Ezekiel 18:20). If God were to relate strictly with us on the basis
of our sins, everyone on earth would have died by now (Psalm 130:3). If you
want to live long and enjoy God’s mercy on a continuous basis, live holy. Live
to please God and God alone.
Key
point
The
wisest people on earth are those who live according to God’s commands.
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