“You shall be holy to me…” Lev20.26 ESV
In what ways are we to set ourselves apart to the Lord? Well, in everyway, but particularly in whatever He might ask of us individually and whatever He might be asking of us at this moment. He asked the rich young ruler to give away all his possessions. He asked Abraham to sacrifice his son. He asked Isaiah to run around naked for three years. Christians have professed giving up certain practices like watching movies, or going to the theater because they believed God was asking this of them. Well, He has asked none of these things of me, at lease in a particular sense. But, He has in the same spirit asked me to deny myself, take up my cross and follow Him. I think that the cross is different for each of us. And, it may be something different at different seasons of life. God may ask something of me in my youth, something else in my old age and something He has never asked of anyone else we know. But whatever it is, we can be sure it is that one thing in us at that particular moment that represents our very soul.
I need not bother with what He is asking of another, or to bother another with what He may be asking of me. Let each of us attend to our own crosses. 5/3/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
