BE HOLY!

I know a lot of people talk about holiness. There are a lot of mixed opinions and ideas about what it is, how it's done, who is, who isn't....

Anyway, I like talking about it because I have a vastly different perspective than most. So take it or leave it, here is what I believe. 

There is nothing you can do to be holy. You are holy because Jesus gave you His Holy Spirit. 

You might here a phrase like, "Jesus is more concerned about your holiness than your happiness". This is true but He was so concerned with it that He took care of your holiness for you and provided you with His. 

 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. Hebrews 2:11

What is holiness? I don't know if you can actually define it or quantify it. The best thing you can do is look how perfect, complete, and solid God is. You can look at His truest nature (His goodness) and get a glimpse because He loves revealing deep things to us. But that is the nature He provides for you. 

You see, this is what happened....

⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified:

“What is man that you are mindful of him,
    the son of man that you care for him?
⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels;
    you crowned him with glory and honor
⁸     and put everything under his feet.”

In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. ⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:6-9

God made us and gave us everything. Then we gave it away. The good news is that He came back and took it for Himself and now shares it with us. Now that it is His, He will never let go of it again. He holds it for us while holding us. 

This should make it clear. 

¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— ¹³ for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
¹⁵ But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ,overflow to the many! ¹⁶ Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. ¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
¹⁸ Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
²⁰ The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹ so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:12-21

And that should make you pretty happy.