It will come about that he who is left in Zion and is left in Jerusalem will be called holy – everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem.  Isaiah 4:3.

God wants us holy.  God purges and purifies, and wants us to purify ourselves.

But this purifying process is not intended to be a perpetual lifestyle.  Once purged, we are holy and are to live as such.  To be sure, at times we may need to return for a washing, as Jesus washed the disciples’ feet.  But we move on.  We walk in the new identity of that cleansed state.  We are named as “holy.”  For that is what we are.

LORD, may I walk in this new identity of holiness.

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