Personal Holiness
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Personal Holiness
Personal Holiness
Who am I?
Where do we come from?
Who is God?
What is the meaning of life?
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Saroo: I’m not from Calcutta—I’m lost.
Who am I?
Where do we come from?
Who is God?
What is the meaning of life?
These questions are the questions of life that people have always asked.
There is something in us as humans with a soul, that seeks true identity, an identity deeper than a species, gender, nationality, social status, profession, or even personality.
There is something in all humanity that seeks to know true identity.
We seek a home. Because deep down all of humanity feels like Saroo “Im lost”
“Im Lost” is how many feel deep down is they don’t know who they are, or why they are here, why are they alive?
Know who you are!
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, -
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3
Live according.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
2 Cor
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Col
Prodigal Son returns to the father, Starts living in his identity as son.
Our thoughts rewire our brain, to think and act more and more that way.
So think about your identity, preach to yourself! Tell yourself who you are, and get rid of anything and everything that doesn't match that.