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HOLY HOME AND SURROUNDINGS
Our God is a holy God. It’s good to be reminded, isn’t it? Sometimes we get caught up in our daily lives and forget that we belong to a holy God. Hebrews 13:14 says: “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.”
If we truly belong to God, we will seek to be holy in our personal lives and to make our homes a holy place for God. In fact, the whole section, plot, or land where we live is to be holy to the Lord.
We learn this from the time of Passover. God told His people that during that time (Passover is a picture of our being redeemed by the blood of Jesus) that there was to be no leaven (which speaks of sin) in their homes, and in their whole territory. In fact, God told them that there was to be no “yeast at all found within the borders of your land.”
Jesus didn’t suffer and die upon the cross to leave us in our sin, but to come and dwell within our hearts to give us victory over it. The Christian walk is a holy walk.
I believe that we should seek to keep “leaven” (sin) not only out of lives, but out of our homes, and out of the whole section or piece of land on which we live. God wants the whole environment around us to be holy
I love the description of God’s house which should be the prototype for our homes. Ezekiel 43:12 (NASB) says: “This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.”
This is a wonderful vision to have for our homes and land. To be holy. But not only holy. It is to be “MOST HOLY.” As mothers who watch over our homes and our children’s lives, we observe not only what goes on in the home, but outside the home. We’ve got to keep it all holy.
Be blessed today,
Nancy Campbell
