Scripture Text: 1 Peter 1:13-25

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Rudyard Kipling, “The Way through the Woods”

They shut the road through the woods

Seventy years ago.

Weather and rain have undone it again.

And now you would never know

There was once a road through the woods.

J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“Holy” is both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him. In its application to people, God’s “holy ones” or “saints,” the word implies both devotion and assimilation: devotion, in the sense of living a life of service to God; assimilation, in the sense of imitating, conforming to, and becoming like the God one serves. For Christians, t ...