Serve Him in Holiness

To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life. – Luke 1.74-75

We saw yesterday that we can serve Jesus without being afraid of the presence of sin. We have been freed from its penalty of sin and the power of sin. Apart from that truth we could never, ever do what comes next.

‘That we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him…in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives.

We all know ourselves. We know the thoughts and intents and spiritual battles that we face. We all know how unholily we can think and act at times. How then can we serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness and how can we do it all the days of our lives?

We certainly can’t do it on our own. The most holy and righteous of us will fall short of God’s standard of holiness and righteousness.

But we can be holy and righteous. We can do that only because Christ’s holiness and His righteousness are imputed to us. We can serve Him all the days of our lives because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever and He will never leave us or forsake us.

All of that would be impossible without Him. Praise God He visited and redeemed us.