Or Life Abundant Amidst the Dreck<\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/22.PS_.20250922_085019_resized.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nLiving in the Weeds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nEzekiel 36:29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 Thessalonians 4:7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFor God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Words of Grace for Today –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holiness: to be set apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are we set apart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How does God set us apart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are we ridiculed, mocked, exiled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are we ignored as inferior and useless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are we set apart to live in loneliness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if God lays no famine on us, what good are full grain hoppers if no one will interact with us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is this life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holiness: to be set apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Set in the world, among all the dreck, drudgery, mundane, offensive, disgusting, dirty, and destructive, but set apart to be examples not of our own purity, but of God\u2019s choice to free us from all that would denigrate us and others, setting us free to be as God created us to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holy. Set apart in the midst of all that is impure, to be God\u2019s example of God\u2019s power to make impure blessed, and therefore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wonderful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
awesome,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
graceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nLiving in the Weeds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ezekiel 36:29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Thessalonians 4:7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Words of Grace for Today –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holiness: to be set apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are we set apart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n How does God set us apart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are we ridiculed, mocked, exiled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are we ignored as inferior and useless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are we set apart to live in loneliness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even if God lays no famine on us, what good are full grain hoppers if no one will interact with us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holiness: to be set apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Set in the world, among all the dreck, drudgery, mundane, offensive, disgusting, dirty, and destructive, but set apart to be examples not of our own purity, but of God\u2019s choice to free us from all that would denigrate us and others, setting us free to be as God created us to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Holy. Set apart in the midst of all that is impure, to be God\u2019s example of God\u2019s power to make impure blessed, and therefore<\/p>\n\n\n\n wonderful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n awesome,<\/p>\n\n\n\n graceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Into loneliness? Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Or Life Abundant Amidst the Dreck Living in the Weeds. Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. . 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God did not call us to impurity but … Continue reading “Holiness: Set Apart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}