As I trust you will with all blanket statements and formulas, please hold this declaration, "Devotion The Necessary Starting Point For Holiness Of Life" very lightly.
Devotions is certainly a necessary state to pursuit of holiness of life. However, the factors which birth devotion in us are of equal, perhaps greater, importance.
Such precursors as abhorring sin (yes, I meant that strength in language for it represents more than hating sin and precious few of us hate our own sin though perchance we may hate another person's sin), being completely overwhelmed by the love of God, by awareness of His daily unmeasured practice of grace toward us individually, by the cost/price, value/worth, to Jesus and God to pay for even the smallest, most ignored, hidden of our sins are prerequisites or at least attendant conditions for devotion to the pursuit of holiness.
As you can see, I make no claim of completeness toward this topic of reflection, but I do invite you to join in prayer that God bring us to understanding and practice of the Holiness without which no man shall see God. For I am well aware that while righteousness is imputed then practiced, holiness is never imputed. It is not a cover placed over our sin. It is a replacement or it is not present in our lives.
Wayne M. Anson, Micah 6:8
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