Tag: Private Life

The Unseen Clothes

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Jonathan Cahnby Jonathan Cahn

In Exodus 28, the Lord gives instructions concerning the priest’s garments. These instructions covered not only the outer clothes, but the undergarments as well. The undergarments were the most private and secret part of the priestly garments, which no one saw. Thus the Lord required that even their undergarments had to be holy. I Peter 2:9 says that you who are born again are now members of God’s holy priesthood. This Scripture teaches us that God is not just concerned about how we live in front of others, but how we live in private. As a priest of God, the Lord’s holiness, sanctification, and anointing must be the same in your private life as in your public life. You must live as holy in secret as your are in public. Either in the sanctuary or alone with no one seeing you, there are no secrets before the Lord. The holiness of God must permeate every facet of your life, and so much so that you have nothing to hide. Make that your aim. For just as holy as the priest’s breastplate and crown was his holy underwear.

Today’s Mission – Today, make it your aim to be as holy in your private life as in public.

by Jonathan Cahn

Living with Christ

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A.W. Tozerby A.W. Tozer

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Romans 6:8

Another reason that our religion must interfere with our private lives is that we live in the world, the Bible name for human society. The regenerated man has been inwardly separated from society as Israel was separated from Egypt at the crossing of the Red Sea. The Christian is a man of heaven temporarily living on earth. Though in spirit divided from the race of fallen men he must yet in the flesh live among them. In many things he is like them, but in others he differs so radically from them that they cannot but see and resent it. From the days of Cain and Abel the man of earth has punished the man of heaven for being different. The long history of persecution and martyrdom confirms this.

But we must not get the impression that the Christian life is one continuous conflict, one unbroken irritating struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil. A thousand times no. A heart that learns to die with Christ soon knows the blessed experience of rising with Him, and all the world’s persecutions cannot still the high note of holy joy that springs up in the soul that has become the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

by A.W. Tozer