Today we begin meditating on a book by John Eldredge

Free to Live: the utter relief of holiness

John Eldredge © 2013

 John prays ...

O Lord! Lead me in the way to be good again.

Let me be a person who manifests what Christianity does to a person

and who invites others into the journey with You.

Only You can restore my humanity to that which You designed me to be and do.

Meditations—points to ponder

Whether you are aware of it or not, you crave goodness. In the depths of our being we ache for goodness—our souls long for a sense of wholeness and goodness. 

We are made for goodness like we are made to breathe and made to love.

 Goodness is the strength of our condition. 

God restores human beings because being whole and holy is our destiny.

Q: What comes to mind when you read/hear the word holiness?

Holiness is not exactly a hot topic of conversation these days—in great part because we have come to associate all sorts of crushing and unattainable rules and rituals with it. 

Yet in order to make human beings what they are meant to be, the love of God seeks to make us whole and holy. In fact, the assumption of the New Testament is that you cannot become whole without becoming holy—

nor can you become holy without becoming whole—the two go hand in hand.

John Eldredge Free to Live: the utter relief of holiness p5-9

1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 (NLT) — 23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 24 God will make this happen, for He Who calls you is faithful.