Should you wait around until you have become so holy and relational that you are finally ready to go out and do the ministry; or, should you grow as you go? What is more important? Is “being” more important or is “doing” more important? What if those aren’t your only two options?


Maybe hearing and staying connected are the important issues. It is possible that Jesus never intended to make you holy. He could be trying to get you connected to holiness and then let that holiness shine through your relationships to others. Maybe spiritual connectedness is the important issue.

I don’t know about you; but, if I start being holy, I am going to really feel proud about it. If the holiness I am experiencing is God flowing through me, I am going to be more prone to give Him the glory. We’ve had a lot of man’s holiness over the years. In Jesus’ time the Pharisees and Sadducees were perfect examples of people who thought they had become pretty holy.

They were so sure they had achieved it that they completely missed the Son of God in their midst. That can happen to you. You getting a certain holiness from God, claiming that holiness for yourself, and trying to do godly things because of who you think you have become causes you to miss out on what God is doing. If your eyes are on yourself, then your eyes can’t be on Jesus.