The Price of Holiness

In A.W. Tozer’s book THE PURSUIT OF GOD—THE HUMAN THIRST FOR THE DIVINE, he talks about the self-life and describes it as “the hyphenated sins of the human spirit”. He clearly defines these sins as self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and numerous others. He goes on to say “these sins are not something we DO, they are something we ARE, and therein lies both their subtlety and their power”.

God requires us to die to self so that Christ may live within us. If you grew up in a church, you heard these words many times. It does not cost me anything to speak the words. It does cost me something to live out the words. Our Father has a purpose for us and it is to glorify His son on this earth as we prepare to glorify Him in heaven.

Over the past several months I have written on holiness because I believe that it is desperately needed in our culture today. Only God’s people can be holy. We cannot expect the world to live in holiness because there is no holiness within it. As women proclaiming the NAME above every name as our own, it is time we allowed the pure white light of the Holy Spirit to shine on our self-life to reveal what needs to be placed on the cross in order to die to self so that the glorious, Holy One can truly live His life through us.

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