“Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Isaiah 6:6-7
I remember a portion of a message preached years ago. The preacher quoted a Chinese proverb: “Show me with whom you walk and I will show you who you are.”
Maybe you have heard you mom or dad express a similar sentiment:
“You are known by the company you keep!”
Who you spend your time with does make a difference in your life.
We certainly know from the Bible (without the added input from Chinese proverbs or expressions our parents used to say) that we are influenced by those we have in our lives. This influence can be for good or it can be for evil.
In a blog posted here some time ago I talked about the undeniable truth
that you become like who you worship. If, as a follower of Jesus Christ, your worship is directed to God then there is an influence for holiness and purity.
It was declared this way on Sunday -
Authentic worship provides a pathway to personal purity.
You will find yourself being changed as you worship the Lord. It is a process, to be sure, but a process that will change us “…from glory to glory…” as we develop that good and beneficial and influential habit of worshipping God.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
II Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
Isaiah 6:6-7
I remember a portion of a message preached years ago. The preacher quoted a Chinese proverb: “Show me with whom you walk and I will show you who you are.”
Maybe you have heard you mom or dad express a similar sentiment:
“You are known by the company you keep!”
Who you spend your time with does make a difference in your life.
We certainly know from the Bible (without the added input from Chinese proverbs or expressions our parents used to say) that we are influenced by those we have in our lives. This influence can be for good or it can be for evil.
In a blog posted here some time ago I talked about the undeniable truth
that you become like who you worship. If, as a follower of Jesus Christ, your worship is directed to God then there is an influence for holiness and purity.
It was declared this way on Sunday -
Authentic worship provides a pathway to personal purity.
You will find yourself being changed as you worship the Lord. It is a process, to be sure, but a process that will change us “…from glory to glory…” as we develop that good and beneficial and influential habit of worshipping God.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
II Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
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