Colossians 2:20-21
If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, ‘Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!’
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We are called to be holy and blameless in love {Eph.1:4} and we are able to do that because the Holy Spirit has been given to us and lives within us. We true believers are the temple of the Holy Spirit. {1Co.6:19} The important thing to remember is that holiness, a gift from God, originates in us and radiates outwards. All too often it seems as though we have been convinced that holiness comes from external things, how we dress, what we eat, or—just as today's verse says—what we handle, taste or touch changes the inner man. That is backwards and upside down.
 
So many of the Pharisees of Jesus’ day were experts at appearing and acting holy, being very ‘religious’, but as Jesus who knows the heart of man said to them: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.” {Mat.23:27}
 
When you and I accepted the free gift of God, salvation through the shed blood of Jesus the Lamb of God, we became a new creation, holy and blameless and beyond reproach in the sight of the Father. {Col.1:22} Knowing that incredibly wonderful truth should bring us true holiness and humility because it is all about what Jesus has done. A focus rather on what we have done, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, how loud we pray, etc., etc. can only bring pride and 'religiosity'.
 
We must change the way we think of those things: Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, {Rom.13:14}—Taste and see that the Lord is good {Ps.34:8} and be able to say like Jeremiah, “Your words were found and I ate them, and Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts” {Jer.15:16} and put on the robes of righteousness. {Is.61:10} And now like the woman who had a hemorrhage for 12 years, reach out and touch the Lord. Like her, you will see a glorious change! {Lk.8:43-48}

YES! Take care of what you handle, what you taste, and what you touch, but remember that the presence of God can make anything holy, even dirt:
 
And the angel of the Lord (YHWH) appeared to (Moses) in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, “I must turn aside now, and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.”
   When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” (Exodus 3:2-5)
 
PUT ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST