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Purity–A Call to Holiness

The Book of Leviticus is an extensive guidebook showing God’s people how to live daily in relationship to Him and one another. Holiness is a major theme of Leviticus, and some form of the word holiness appears in the book more than 100 times. Leviticus teaches Christians to be holy, for the Lord himself is holy (Leviticus 11:44). God’s people were to separate themselves from evil and impurity and live righteously and obediently. A believer must depend on God alone and the power of His Spirit to develop and maintain a life of holiness.

While some Christians desire holiness, others are less committed to the pursuit of it. In Rhonda Harrington Kelley’s Bible study, A Woman’s Guide to Personal Holiness, she states, “Some Christian women even dread a life of holiness, thinking it means a life of rules and regulations or boredom. Nothing could be further from the truth.” A believer’s life need not be filled with negative discouragements, but positive encouragements. A woman of holiness learns to find great joy and satisfaction in her personal relationship with Christ. C.S. Lewis said, “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing… it is irresistible.”

To be holy is to be godly, to have a disposition, a will, a character like God. In Christ, the holiness of God appeared in a human life, in His own life here on earth. Author Andrew Murray states that the nature of light is the same whether we see it in the sun or in a candle; the nature of holiness remains unchanged whether it dwells in God or in man.

For hundreds of years Christians have spoken of holiness, but many have not lived holy lives. Now is the time to return to the Scriptures for instruction in holiness. It is time to stop talking and begin living holy lives in an unholy world. In each generation, believers reveal the level of their commitment by the quality of their behavior.