Living up to God's standards...

"Be holy for I am holy"

1 peter 1:16

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Does anyone feel overwhelmed as I do by this command from God? It's such a high calling...Yet I feel like I'm struggling and working through something all the time. Failures are a regular, usual occurence. I'm thankful for the future promise that we will one day be like Christ, but I feel overwhelmed by "walk worthy of your calling" knowing that the standard is set by a most Holy God and knowing that on earth I will always struggle with sin. I feel discouraged and frustrated by my sin.

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Any thoughts, encouragements, comments on this??

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Let my cry come before You, O Lord;

Give me understanding according to Your word.

Let my supplication come before You;

Deliver me according to Your word.

My lips shall utter praise,

For You teach me Your statues.

My tongue shall speak of Your word,

For all Your commandments are righteousness.

Let Your hand become my help,

For I have chosen Your precepts,

I long for Your salvation, O Lord,

And Your law is my delight.

Let my soul live, and it shall praise You;

And let Your judgments help me.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep;

Seek Your servant,

For I do not forget Your commandments.

Psalm 119:169-176