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One Life, Made Holy

There Was Never Meant to Be a Divide

One Life, Made Holy

There Was Never Meant to Be a Divide

There was never a moment when God intended your life to be lived in compartments.

Church here.
Work there.
Faith on Sundays.
Real life everywhere else.

That division was never His design.

You were bought at a beautiful price—the life of Jesus Christ—and in that giving, something decisive happened. Scripture does not describe this as a hope you grow into or a status you earn over time. It names it as a finished reality:

“And by that will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:10

Holiness was not postponed.

It was bestowed.

What Holy Actually Means

In the Hebrew Scriptures, holy comes from qadosh—set apart, devoted, marked for sacred purpose.

In the New Testament, the word is hagios—belonging fully to God.

Holiness was never meant to remove you from ordinary life.

It was meant to fill ordinary life with God’s presence.

You are not holy only when you pray or sing.
You are holy at work.
Holy in conversation.
Holy while shopping.
Holy at home.

There is no version of you that God steps away from.

One Life, One Presence

If your life belongs to Him, then everywhere you go becomes a place He goes, too.

The Holy Spirit does not clock in on Sunday and clock out on Monday.
His gifts were never meant for a building.
They were meant for people.

As Kris Vallotton reminds us,
“God never intended the gifts of the Spirit to be confined to the four walls of the Church… We are moving from a ministry to the saints to the ministry of the saints.”

Love on Every Path You Walk

The fruit of the Spirit is love (Galatians 5:22).
Not abstract love.
Not reserved love.

But love expressed through you—toward each person you meet.

You never meet someone God does not love.

An

d you never step into a place where His Spirit is absent.

Your whole life is sacred ground.
Not because you are trying harder—
but because He is with you, in you, and flowing through you.

Reflection

Where might you still be separating “spiritual life” from everyday life?
What would it look like to trust that God is already present in every place you go today?
Who might experience His love simply because you show up as yourself?

Prayer

Abba Father, thank You that my whole life belongs to You. Teach me to live awake to Your presence in every place I walk. Help me trust that You are already at work through me— loving others in ways only You can. Amen.

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