WE, as Christians, often try to live a good life, honoring to God - we try to separate ourselves from anything that isn't about God - set apart from sin or from a focus on this world. Since "being set apart for God" is the definition of holiness, we are trying to be holy. Not trying to be a saint or totally faultless, but trying to live a life worthy of being called a Christian. This seems like a worthy goal in life but it is the wrong goal. Anytime our focus is on ourselves, even for what looks like a good reason, our focus is in the wrong place.
We tend to follow our eyes (ask any coach for baseball or tennis). If our focus is on us, then we become most important. But God doesn't love us more because we are holy, we become holy because God is in our lives. The personal holiness comes with our deepening relationship with God. It is an effect of it, rather than the cause of it. If our focus is on God, then he is most important. And who do you want to be the center of your life?
You give me your shield of victory; you stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. - David
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