'Out of earthliness and sinfulness,
Out of earthliness and sinfulness, into purer and Christlier being
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry." Colossians 3:5
All base desires, all bad habits, all longings for ignoble things, that we vanquish and trample down — become ladder-rungs on which we climb upward out of earthliness and sinfulness, into purer and Christlier being .
There really is no other way by which we can rise upward. If we are not living victoriously these little common days, we surely are not making any progress. Only those who climb, are mounting toward the stars.
Heaven itself at last, and the heavenly life here on earth, are for those only who overcome.
"He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be My son." Revelation 21:7