When we think of holiness we need to think of purity. God is holy, which means He is pure and without any blemish or sin. To live a life that is holy and to have a life that is in pursuit of God's holiness in our life, is a life that is chasing purity. Simply put a life that is holy is a life that is beating temptation more times than not.
Now a pure life in this world will still sin. We are human, imperfect, still live in this flesh that has passions and a bent towards sin. But when we are born again and called to a life of holiness, we are called to resist sin and flee temptation. When I mean flee temptation, think of Joseph fleeing Potipher's wife. The temptation to sin is still there and living in this world we will still have tons of things that want and call us to sin and not live a life that is holy and pleasing to God. But a life that is chasing holiness, is a life that resist the temptation and flees from the sin before it is committed.
A holy life is a life of purity and when an impurity effects it because of sin, because we will still sin, we must run back to God broken and ask for repentance and go back to a pure life until the next time we sin and need repentance with God again. This is the struggle and yet joy of a holy life. Staying pure and when the purity is broken getting repentance to return to a pure holy life loving Jesus and loving the world that needs to know of Him and His holiness.
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