It is about honour and respect

NORSK
When I yesterday wrote about respect for holiness, I remembered a course I lead five years back, in which Commissioner Robert Street was one of the lecturers. 

Street has written several books, and on that occaion he taught from his book on “Servant leadership”. 

He focused on the fact that the most important part of the mind of a servant, is to show respect.

He told that he as the Training Principal of William Booth College in London every week asked the cadets:

“Have you been respected by the staff and the other cadets this last week?”

And continued:

“Have you shown everyone respect during the last week?”

One thing is to know what is right, another thing is that this needs to be integrated in my attitude, become part of my 'spine'. It is biblical:

Honour everyone. Love the family of believers. Have respectful fear of God. Honour the emperor.
1 Pet 2:17 CEB

I honour people through showing them respect, and through honouring the man created in God’s image, I also show God honour and respect! I pray that this will work even today!

‘Manna’ for today:

Holiness is to show people honour and respect.

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It is about 'my' image

NORSK
I have a “Holistic” view on man. In short, this means that I believe God is interested in all of me. He is not only concerned about the soul, but about our whole being – body, soul and spirit.
It is important to state this when I now go to the individual level, and I start with a simple question: “What is ‘my image’?”

For me, the belief in the fact that man is created in the image of God is extremely important when I want to get deeper into the mystery of holiness. God is holy, and a logic consequence of being made in his image is that I am meant to be holy. God himself confirms this:

The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.’”
Lev 19:1-2 & 1 Pet 1:16

The “Fall” did something to the divine image in man. We read that Adam 

“…had a son in his own likeness, in his own image” 
Gen 5:3

The descendants of Adam are born in the image of the fallen man. Paul addresses this issue with the relationship between Adam and Christ (the second Adam), and concludes:

Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Rom 5:18-19

What I was originally made to be, is restored in Jesus Christ. There is no other way of holiness – because it is ‘THE’ way of holiness. ‘Manna’ for today:

In Christ man is restored in God’s image

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It is about the beginning

NORSK
When I drink of the well of holiness, it is always good to go to the beginning. God is the beginning and the end of everything. He is the "alpha and omega". The subject of holiness must therefore have as a prerequisite that God himself is holy. There is a solid biblical evidence for claiming the holiness of God – e.g.:

1. It is God’s personal testimony:

The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.'”
Lev 19:1-2

2. Angels and spiritual creatures confess that God is holy

Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."
Rev 4:8

3. People perceive Him as holy

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
Isa. 6:5

“… he who called you is holy …”
1 Pet 1:15 

Every word about holiness rests on the fact that God – the beginning – is holy.
 
‘Manna’ for today

It is very a good start!

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