“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 an...

“You ask me how I know He lives: He lives within my heart.” – Alfred H. Ackley ❤ Dear solitude sufferer, There are times I feel empty or like there’s something missing. I think that’s a common feeling. There are times you wish for someone to understand, times you long for someone to hold your hand. Perhaps you don’t want to be single anymore. Perhaps you’re bored of your quiet floor. Well, suffer no more, for there is the Savior, knocking on your heart’s door. Let Him in, and you won’t feel alone anymore. We have a God who desires to be with His people. He is Immanuel, which means “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). It’s so timely that we’re at the beginning of the Christmas month and I’m blogging about one of the glorious names of the Son born for us this season. Today we’ll tackle one grand design that God used as the way to be with the Israelites. It may not be as monumental as Solomon’s temple, but this design is more than its appearance, for its beauty is in its symbolism, its pa...