Holy in all your conduct

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." - 1 Peter 1v14-16

When the loins of our minds are girt up in the hope His coming we are to live our daily lives, not like we used to live when we did not know any better, but is a whole new way. We are now to live our lives as His obedient children.

What does it mean to live as His obedient children? It means we are to be holy in all of our conduct because of His instruction to be holy, because He is holy. Children manifest character traits of their parents. God’s character is holiness so therefore it should also characterise us.

We are to be holy in all our conduct. We are to be holy in everything we do. At work, at play, at church, at home, at school, and any other place we are we are to show holiness. We are to be as holy at work as we are at church. We are to be as holy when playing games and sports as we are when we are reading our Bibles. We are to be holy in our secular reading as in our sacred.

In fact, when we think about it, is there really a distinction between secular and sacred if we are to be holy in all of our conduct? There is not a ‘holy time’ and a ‘non holy time.’

Holiness is a way of life, not something we put on for church on Sunday.