Grace and Holiness II

How many of us knows the grace of the Lord is lavish and freely given to those who would accept it? But do we also know there is a place which stands a level I would say higher than that of having just grace alone? That is Holiness! yet as much as grace was given by God through His redemptive work on the cross. Holiness comes as a choice just just as much as it is to accept the Lordship of Christ in our lives and we cannot attain salvation by our own of efforts alone, not by works but by His grace taking us in and being His very children. Holiness likewise isnt something we can attain just by choice but in many similiar means to salvation we have to acknowledge we are have sinned and by ourselves are weak. Should we ever choose to justify our own sins, we are but justifying it to the standards of the flesh and in the end we're find that "its-not-so-wrong-after all" to sin.But if we take it to the throne of grace, yes! we are guilty as charged! yet the sentence had very well been paid on the cross of which also our sins had at that very instant been washed by the blood of Jesus. and the outward expression would be that we will share the love of Christ with some one else with zeal. Similiarly when we desire the likeness of Christ in all of His holiness, He will give to us His Holiness
7 " 'Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. 8 Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the LORD, who makes you holy. (leviticus 20: 7,8)

These two verses clearly shows firstly we have to choose holiness to please God by keeping in step with Him and obey Him, then will accept us as living sacrifices pleasing to Him and make us Holy. We must allow God do an internal surgery within us with his utensils consecrated by Him at His altar having laid bare to cut out the cancerous cells of sin growing within us. That which is one the word of God

12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

and when the surgery is an ongoing process and its only through when we meet Christ again with a glorified body. Then at the time of Moses only the priest were allowed into the Holy of Holies. and even so they must do all the ceremonial cleansing on themselves and have themselves offer the necessary sacrifices for the atonement of their sins and the sins of the people. Yet even so, they fear the wrath of the almighty God.
They enter in cautiously hoping they had laid all of themselves together with the sacrificial lamb, they even had to burn the incense, to hide the stench of flesh from God. Now we have the opportunity having access into His presence by the sacrificed blood of Jesus Christ the lamb slain to shed His blood as a covering and He even called us to be His very own!

9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)

We can either choose to be the people who are always coming to the priest to slaughter the lamb in atonement for their sins outside of the Holy of Holies when we already have been called unto Himself at the throne of Grace in all of His Holiness radiating on us that we will reflect Him to our generation? We must step into the level not of just attaining Grace and enter further into His Holiness and be changed from glory to glory within the operating theatre of consuming fire of a Holy God and yet its comforting to know we are in the hands of love who formed us for a purpose and destiny,in a sweet intimate communion with Him. Allowing His beauty to melt away all of our ugliness,bitterness and pain.
Having put us at strategic places of influences whatever our lot may be in society, God has put us where we are to set the standards and not us being the ones who crumble under societal pressures of a generation of which it's morals are crumbling from within it walls,walls and pillars which they have held on to as crutches of security are falling under it's own weight of sin. And God had set us apart a Holy people, a generation laid bare before Himself as a living sacrifice, a broken vessel all pour out to Him and all sold out to Him and We will take the gospel of Christ and shake our nations with the Spirit flowing out from a brokeness of Spirit and dead in flesh to which had been once a box He was often limited to and He will show the people of the nations His Holiness and they will turn to Him, convicted of their sins and they'll recognise their need of God in their lives. The wheels had already been set in motion and God is doing a work to turn the nations back to Himself and He will take that which is consecrated and Holy,set apart and He will use as a vessel.
He is asking us "whom shall I send?"
What is your response to Him? When will we remove our sandals-of which we so afraid of getting our feet dirty. When are gonna let the coal touch our lips- lips that spurts forth the very things indwelt within our hearts. and be a man after the heart of God-Devoted and reliant on the lover of our soul, A heart that desires only to please God the one he loves so much.
A man whose Heart is pure and hands clean, keeping the word of the Lord within His heart so that He will not sin.