I heard an excellent message this weekend that discussed holiness. We are not made holy by anything we can do. Our righteousness is, after all, like filthy rags. We are not made holy by our actions, our clothes, or even our attitudes. We are made holy by the blood of Jesus. It was when the priests in the OT were sprinkled with the blood of the lamb that they were set apart as holy to the Lord. In the same way, we are covered with the blood of the Lamb today. When God looks at us now, He sees the blood of Jesus. It is His blood that makes us holy, not anything we can do on our part. Anything we do in dress or word or deed is because we
are holy, not because we are trying to be holy. And it isn't a contest, BTW, of who has the longest hem or hair. It's a matter of a heart response to God.
