“I AM HOLY!”

Leviticus 11:44-45                                            (ESV)

“44 For I am the LORD your GOD. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be Holy, for “I AM HOLY”. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

45 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be Holy, for “I AM HOLY”."”

One dictionary defines the word “au·to·bi·og·ra·phy/ˌôdəbīˈäɡrəfē/noun” as ”an account of a person's life written by that person.”  When GOD breathed the breath of LIFE into man (Genesis 2:7 ““then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”), HE Created us to be HOLY, for “I AM HOLY”!  The same dictionary lists THE “HOLY BIBLE” as “Bi·ble/ˈbībəl/nounthe Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments."verses from the Bible" synonyms, the Holy Scriptures, Holy Writ, the Good Book, the Book of Books”!!!  Since JESUS said in John 4:24 that GOD IS SPIRIT, and we are flesh, it would stand to reason that GOD doesn’t operate exactly the way we do!  

Genesis 1:27 says “So GOD created man in HIS OWN IMAGE, in the IMAGE of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them.”  So man, in his state of CREATION, WAS HOLY!  We were CREATED by ALMIGHTY GOD to be HOLY, for “I AM HOLY”, but man failed at being HOLY, so GOD sent HIS SON as a substitute for our wicked selves.  GOD’S WORD, THE HOLY BIBLE, is s without error and it is complete.  It has what hap happened in the past, what is happening now, and what will happen in the future!  And it ALL centers around BEING HOLY!  

Since we, HIS Creations, have fulfilled Scripture (because Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick (wicked); who can understand it?) by our actions, why do we think we can write out some Scriptures, or just totally ignore the TRUTH?  We are CREATED, not the creator!  “The enemy” has spoken this lie since Genesis 3:5 when he said “you will be like GOD”.  We are Created in HIS image, but we are not HOLY like HIM.  

GOD GAVE us HIS SON and HIS WORD which are the only examples of HOLINESS that we have, and we FAIL to keep our EYES on either ONE!  Freely HE gave them to us, but we act as though money, fame and possessions are more important.  “I AM HOLY” will return VERY SOON to claim HIS CHOSEN.  As evidenced by the lives being lived for HIM, the task will not be that difficult.  Matthew 7:14 says “For the gate is NARROW and the WAY IS HARD that leads to life, and THOSE WHO FIND IT ARE FEW.”  

Are you trusting in the ONE that lived the “I AM HOLY” life?