“Where You are, Lord, I am free. Holiness is Christ in me.” – Matt Maher 🤍 Dear stained soul, Does the guilt in your conscience discomforts your essence? Do you think you’re unforgivable? To get past your vice, are you unable? We all fall short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). The ever good news is Christ forgives, blots out all sin, and renews us amazingly. Once we’re His, we’re called to be holy. My previous epistle ’s subtitle is “Set Apart from the Mundane.” Holy means exactly that. I presented how sins are taken away in Old Testament times and closed by saying that Jesus is the ultimate atonement. Now, we’ll see what holiness practically was. Leviticus 20:22-26 (NASB) 22 ‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. 23 Furthermore, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I am going to drive out before you, because they did all these things; therefo

  “Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee, though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see…” – Reginald Heber ☁ Dear routined robot, Sticking to a system structures our schedules smoothly, but doing deeds in duplicates decreases devotion to duty. That doesn’t mean we can’t do sincere quiet time with God if it’s clocked by the minute. I’m calling the robot within us that reads Scripture or prays as if to just check it off our to-do lists. Rituals are part of any religion. If we don’t know their purpose, we’re doing them in vain. If we don’t feel loved by the one we worship, they would be mundane. Today, I’ll be discussing about an important yearly ritual our spiritual ancestors practiced, the Day of Atonement. Leviticus 16:15-16, 20-22 (NASB) 15 “Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the atoning cover and in