We
need both ‘love’ and ‘holiness’(1 Thessalonians 3:12-13). Our love is
to be holy. Our holiness is to be loving. Getting the right balance
between love and holiness is like walking a tightrope. You can easily
lose your balance and fall off. We can be too soft - all love and no
holiness. We can be too hard - all holiness and no love. Love doesn’t
mean ‘anything goes ’ - ‘I don’t care how you live’. That’s not love.
That’s indifference, a ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude. Holiness doesn’t
mean looking down your nose at other people - ‘You’ve sinned and I will
never let you forget it’. Don’t be like ‘the Pharisees’. They wanted to
‘stone the woman caught in adultery’. We must not ‘stone’ people with
our ‘hot tongue and cold shoulder’! Be like Jesus. Show love - ‘I don’t
condemn you’ - and holiness - ‘Do not sin again’(John 8:3-11).
God's Word is "a lamp to our feet and a light to our path." He has "wondrous things" to teach us as we pray "Open my eyes that I may see" (Psalm 119:105, 18, 11). "May God's blessing surround you each day, as you trust Him and walk in His way. May His presence within guard and keep you from sin, go in peace, go in joy, go in love." "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your Name give glory, because of Your mercy and Your truth" (Psalm 115:1).
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