Sometimes I read the Bible and what I read really jumps out at me as speaking to me about my current worries (see my previous post), and this morning was one of those times. I’m using the M’Cheyne Bible reading plan to read through the Bible in a year. I was catching up on Friday and Saturday’s readings, and some of them really struck me:
The following verses stood out to me in particular:
You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
– Leviticus 20:26
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you are good, O Lord.
– Psalms 25:4-7
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are younh, but set and example for the believes in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
– 1 Timothy 4:12
They really challenged me, to seek to live a holy life – one that’s different and pure, and that simply because I’m young and seemingly uninfluential, I have no excuse, but should seek to be an example in the way I live. Of course, I’m a sinful, struggling human being just like everyone else, and the only way I can do this is through God who strengthens me. So I pray that he will be working in me, and in his church.