“How can young people keep their lives pure? By obeying Your commands. With all my heart I try to serve You; keep me from disobeying Your commandments. I keep Your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against You.” (Psalm 119:9-11 GNT)
Only through God’s Word are our minds remolded and our values renewed…
Obedience is the pathway to holiness, but it is only as we have His commands that we can obey them. God’s Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions.
Jesus said, “Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me” (John 14:21).
-- Jerry Bridges in “The Pursuit of Holiness”
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