Some of what has
been said today is disconcerting. God requires that we be pure and chaste and
yet we find in ourselves defilement and the wanton pangs of remaining sin. What
are we to do? How can we be as pure as God desires us to be? The answer, of
course, is Jesus. He takes us in our mess and cleanses us from all
unrighteousness. He presents us to His
Father as those who have been purified by His forgiveness.
He then gives us His Holy Spirit so
that we are enabled to die to those things that unlawfully attract us and to
live towards those things that are true and lovely in God’s eyes.
All of us have sinned and sinful
thoughts still assail us, some, no doubt, more than others. But God has
cleansed us. God has called us to life. God has given us His Holy Spirit. God
has called us friends. God has called us sons and daughters, children in whom
He is well pleased.
At this place, let us believe God.
Through Jesus He has made us pure and we come to Him with pure hearts full of
thanksgiving.
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