Many believers may find it difficult to give their yes to this question, but if we look at it from God’s perspective that may change. Holiness is not based on performance or behavior. It is not based on what you do for God, how long you have been a believer, or where you go to church. It is so much more than all of that.
Walking in holiness is walking with God. It is a benefit of relationship, agreement with God’s word, and an overflow of seeking to know God intimately. It comes from a repentant heart, a heart that continually turns away from what is counter to God, and instead flourishes in the fruit of redemption. It is more than salvation. It is wanting all that God has made available to us, because of our salvation, but not stopping there.
Holiness is a desire to be set apart from anything that does not bring glory and honor to the Father. God is Spirit, God is holy, and those that seek to know God do so through the Spirit and in all holiness.
Isaiah 35:8-10 A road will be there and a way; it will be called the Holy Way. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for the one who walks the path. Fools will not wander on it. There will be no lion there, and no vicious beast will go up on it; they will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk on it, and the redeemed of the Lord will return and come to Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.