1 Peter 2:11-12
”My divinely loved friends, since you are resident aliens and foreigners in this world, I appeal to you to divorce yourselves from the evil desires that wage war within you. Live honorable lives as you mix with unbelievers, even though they accuse you of being evildoers. For they will see your beautiful works and have a reason to glorify God in the day he visits us.“
The Lord has been speaking to me a lot lately about purity and holiness. And I believe the movement of God we are seeing on college campuses and in individuals is birthing a great hunger and desire for holiness. The scriptures command us to be holy because the Lord our God is holy. And that is not holiness in religious acts. It is purity in our innermost selves, because that is the kind of purity that will overflow in all we say and do. In the Lord’s eyes there is no division between the secular and the sacred. He instructed us to do all of our work as unto the Lord -- not just what we think is religious. In Romans 12:1, Paul calls us to be living sacrifices, holy and set apart for service to the Lord. And he says that this kind of living - in holiness and purity is our spiritual act of worship. It’s living this way that will cause the unbelievers we come across to wonder why we are different. Even as they bring insults and false accusations against us, they will know that there is something very different about us. And when all is said and done, whether they choose to serve the Lord or not, this passage tells us that they will draw the connection between our holiness and the Lord.
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