Revealed Week 9 // Holy // Treasure Map
Let’s think about holiness as if it were a treasure map. God draws a boundary line, a separation, around all his character, the depths of his riches. The line separates all of who he is from everything that he is not. The border of this land is accessible to everyone. It attracts many visitors. However, to cross over the border you must be washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Although his blood, his very life, is given to us without price, it does requires us to give up our old self and become new creations in him. There is no other way. Once we are made new, the Holy Spirit guides us around the heights and depths, the expanse of God’s holy treasures. Nothing is off-limits. He wants to be known. Sara Edwards writes, “I’m beginning to see these boundary lines are meant for me so I can find all of the treasures hidden inside a holy God.”
In Leviticus 19:2, God says, You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. This verse gets back to the original intent with which we were created—in the image of God and in intimate relationship with him. God calls for us to be holy because we are made in him, of him, through him. He doesn’t demand our holiness because he is mean or a tyrannical dictator. He calls for it because he wants to be in relationship with us. That’s his desire; that’s his intent. He is separate from everything else, so we have to become like him—Holy. Good news! God does all the work of holiness. We only have to say yes, an enduring yes.
God has chosen, from before the beginning, to reveal his holy nature through us. When we become new creations through Jesus we become glorious displays of his holiness. Perhaps, the most appealing displays on this side of eternity. Revelation 12:11 says, they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Our life in Christ, our testimony, draws people to God on both sides of the holy border. It beckons some to come and be made new! For those of us already made new, with God’s holiness on display in our lives we encourage each other to venture further within his treasure.
This week, as you read the following daily scriptures, consider how your life has been changed by God’s holiness; how relationship with God is a journey into his depths; and how God’s display of holiness in you is drawing others closer to him.
Daily Scriptures
Day One
Psalm 119:1-5, Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Psalm 119: 9-11, How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Proverbs 11:20, Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.
Day Two
Ephesians 1:3-10, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Day Three
Philippians 2:14-18, Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
Day Four
Colossians 1:19-23, For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation…
Day Five
Ephesians 1: 17-23, …that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Day Six
Matthew 6:19-21, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Day Seven, Selah
Brave Sparrow 