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Holiness

"God’s purpose, in fact, is this, that yours be a consecrated life." —Way

In First Thessalonians 4:3, the Greek word for "sanctification" is hagiasmos, which means "holiness."

It is the common things of life—not, as we sometimes think, the exceptional things—that offer us the greatest opportunity to live a consecrated life.

Zechariah foresaw the day when our dear Lord is satisfied in His people and rejoices over them, and he said: "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts" (Zech. 14:20–21). The great thing is to live in the spirit of “holiness unto the Lord” in all our common things.

Is all holy in my heart? Is all that issues forth in words and in deeds stamped with the hallmark of holiness?

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts. Lead me, even me, in the way of holiness, that my life today may truly be a consecrated life" (Psalm 139:23–24).