Someone Has To

9.17.2010

Ezekiel 44:23 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. ESV

Someone has to – otherwise we’re all doing stupid things stupidly and probably not even realizing it. Someone has to teach; someone has to instruct; someone has to be the role-model. But that someone (or those ‘someone’s’) must know the difference between the holy and the common, the clean and the unclean in order to teach, instruct and model. That calls for a commitment to holiness and a commitment to humbly sit before the Lord and learn.

We must be taught how to honor the Lord. We must be shown how to keep from defiling ourselves. We must learn what it means to give ourselves completely to Him that we may be holy and good as He is. But that means that someone must teach and pass along what they have learned so that they can pass along what they have learned. The ones who qualify best are the ones who pledge allegiance to God and unflinchingly maintain their allegiance through fellowship with Him and obedience to His word.

This is more of an ideal for me than a reality. But there are those I know for who this would be a reality. But that doesn’t keep me from maintaining that there is a standard of holiness to which I am called and to which I have been taught; and I am then to pass along that standard to those around me who will listen. And regardless of the sins of my past I am allowed repentance and God seems to like repentant people…

Father in Heaven,

You have called me though I am broken and fallen; feeble and frail; faulty, fearful, and fickle. You know that my life is different because of You and You’ve put it in me to share that with others. Help me this day to walk in holy commitment to the Kingdom and to model with my life a strong relationship with You – in Jesus’ Name, amen.