Christians have the desire to be Holy. From a Christian’s perspective, more than often, we may think that we are not worthy to be God’s disciples because we are not Holy enough. From some non-christian’s perspective, they may believe that they are never able to achieve holiness due to their lifestyles and thoughts, etc. Some non-christians may even question the need to be holy and believe that we should all be living for today and try to be a good person.

Now let us dig deeper into the concept of holiness. In the bible, God indeed commands us to live holy lives.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. – Romans 12:1 (ESV)

However, too often than enough, we find ourselves falling short of this and believing that we are undeserving of God’s love. We try to carry our burdens by ourselves and feel horrible about things we do to ourselves and to others, and we don’t meet even our own expectations of being a not even holy, but good person.

Now we should all realize that being Holy is not something we can achieve by ourselves, but something we need to desire. We can never be completely sinless, like Jesus since we have already sinned; i.e. our track record is already bad. However, we need to put our trust in Him that He who lived a sinless life has already done it all.

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. – ‭‭John‬ ‭19:30‬ ‭(ESV)

Yes, Jesus has done it all!!! No matter what you have done, if you genuinely put your trust in Jesus that He is Lord who washed away all your sins and genuinely repent, it is finished!