Being Aware of Holiness

This past weekend I didn't do something my mother had asked me too do for a day or two. When my dad caught wind of this he talked to me and said that I should apologize to my mother and do what she asked, and then to go to God for forgiveness. For me it was kinda hard to apologize to my mother.. it just didnt easy or something i wanted to do. But when I went to God to ask for forgiveness it was very easy and light. There was no difficulty asking God for forgiveness, I don't even think I thought once about his infinite holiness!!

I have been thinking about this a lot and I think I have found two problems.

the first is Fear of Man and pride. these ones are bigEs. these I think are the main source of this failure of repentance towards my mother and in any other situation. I think that they manifest themselves through me thinking," I really don't need to apologize, I did nothing wrong." and " oh but if I apologize then I am submitting to the person, but I want to be above him/her." that second one is a dangerous one. it involves both pride and fear of man. we need to try and be aware of our thought during these times, it will benefit us greatly!

the other problem is my failure to recognize God for who He is. He is most holy, He cant be at all near sin. I think the one thing I do that hurts me is I think about what he did on the cross more than I think about what he saved me from and why he did it. When we think about the cross for a long time and not other things. we lose sigh of why he did it. now I'm not saying that
looking toward the cross a lot is bad, in fact its a marvelous thing to do! Bu when we lose sight of sin, we lose the importance of the Cross. Now this is one thing that I know I do and some of you may also need to do is to see God and the Holiness he is, and try to make that effect how we repent to him.

I hope and pray that we can all grow (especially me :P) in these areas.

Any and all thoughts are welcome. any at all! Thanks!


verse of the day: Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! [Psalm 96:9]

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