Thirst for Holiness
We are asked to be holy because God is holy and as children of God we need to thirst for holiness just we read in one of the psalms:
"As the deer longs for streams of water,
so my soul longs for you, my God.
My soul thirst for God, the living God
when shall I go to see the face of God?"
What is it that we have if we love the Lord? we want to be filled with his joy; we want to try to do his will; to be at peace on the inside; we have the thirst to love him as he love us; to be one with the Father and my own greatest wish is not to be separated from him as I'm too weak to live without him.
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What then is holiness? Archbishop Fulton Sheen described it as: "Christ living in me so that his mind possesses my mind and I am governed by his truth. That is holiness. He's in my will and all things I do are pleasing to him. He's in my body, so that my body becomes a tabernacle. Holiness is not only Christ in me, it's making Christ known to others. it's being loveable. it's making Christ loveable. When others see us, they see Christ".
Think about it.... don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?.... Yes weak as the body may be, yet we hold a treasure, not made of gold, in an earthen vessel.....!
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