“Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant. Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy” (1 Peter 1:14, 15).
“Pursue holiness, because no one will see the Lord without it” (Hebrews 12:14).
I am sure we are all too conscious of our lack of inward purity. Our thoughts and actions are all too often rather unholy. I suppose deep down in our hearts we are aware of the spiritual lack caused by our imperfections, even if we follow our respective religious rules. Every confrontation with death creates in us troublesome questions, which cause our fear of death – or perhaps rather fear of what comes after death. One might ‘enjoy’ a fairly good life in an atmosphere where God is absent, but ultimately the certainty of death spoils it all, for we are all aware that, as the Bible puts it:
“ . . . it is appointed to man once to die – and after that is the judgement” (Hebrews 9:27).
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