HOLINESS

The Fourth Sunday in Lent

1 SAMUEL 2:2 (MSG)
Nothing and no one is holy like God...

1 PETER 1:15 (MSG)
...let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.”

SUMMARY SENTENCE
We are called to live lives shaped by God's uniquely pure holiness.

PRAYER
God, thank you for choosing us to uniquely live lives patterned according to yours. We confess that we fail to be different and are too often content to live with impurity -- impurity that you have offered to purge from us. Help me to step up to the plate and enter into the way of life to which you call us. I want to live a life energetic and blazing with holiness. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.