Saturday October 18th, 2025
« Yet they say to each other, ‘Don’t come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!’ These people are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away »
“I let myself be sought by those who didn’t ask for me; I let myself be found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that didn’t call on my name.
2 I held out my hands all day long
to a disobedient people, who walk in a way that isn’t good, following their own inclinations—
3 a people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars;
4 who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs’ meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;
5 who say, ‘Keep to yourself!’ ‘Don’t touch me!’ and ‘I am too holy for you!’ “Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day long.
6 Watch out! It stands written before me: ‘I won’t keep silent, but I will pay back in full;
I’ll indeed repay into their laps
7 both your iniquities and your ancestors’ iniquities together,’’ says the Lord.
“Because they offered incense on the mountains and insulted me on hills,
I’ll measure into their laps full payment for their earlier actions.”
There is a worrisome trend in Christendom today: many people claiming to be holier than other.
While I am a serious advocate for holy living,
I am not in support of condemning other because of the assumption that they are not as holy as you.
- We must acknowledge that we are what we are by the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:10) and no one can be holy except by this grace. Jude 1:24-25 (ISV)
« Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand joyful and faultless in his glorious presence, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time and for all eternity! Amen.”»
So, when you see someone living a questionable life, do not condemn him/her, rather pray that God gives the person grace to live holy.
It is okay to correct someone who has done wrong, but if it is not done in love, you most likely will not get the positive result.
- Many people have given up on faith because some Christians have condemned them.
The hurting and reproachful words spoken to them have pushed them far away from God rather than closer to Him. This is not good at all.
Let love reign.
Let your actions be guided by the intention to bring people out of darkness, not because you deliberately want to hurt them by pointing out their flaws.
If anyone is backsliding in your local assembly,
pray for such as you lovingly try to restore them according to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Don’t laugh at any backslider, don’t look at them with disgust.
The father of the prodigal son never mentioned all the ills the boy had done, he just embraced him in love.
From today, begin to walk in love with people in your family, church, workplace and everywhere else.
See them with the eyes of Jesus and He will not only convert them but will also draw them unto Himself by His power.
Application – Jesus is depending on you to show His love to the people of the world. Don’t push them away.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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