To truly grasp God’s wonderous love, we must internalize the fact that He is Holy.
If you were asked to use a word that encapsulates everything God is, what would it be? Love? Power? Creative? Wisdom? Justice? Eternal? Yes, all of these words describe God because He in His very essence IS all of these things. But there is more to it. All of the words we would use to describe the glorious essence, the perfect and intense display of God’s attributes flows out of the fact that He and He alone is HOLY. It is because He is Holy that He loves perfectly the way He does, executes perfect justice, is omniscient, and so on. Perfection doesn’t describe His Holiness, He is perfect because He IS Holy. He is the Great I Am — existing in all of eternity past, present, and future; completely self-sufficient without contingiency of anything outside of The Trinity — because He is Holy. There is no one and nothing like Father, Son, Holy Spirit in all the universe throughout all of time.
1 Samuel 2:2 says, “There is no one holy like the Lord, Indeed, there is no one besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God. Isaiah 40:25, “‘To whom then will you liken Me that I would be his equal?’ says the Holy One.” When Luke 15:10 tells us that angels rejoice when a sinner repents and is saved, what are they rejoicing over? Are they happy for us personally? Perhaps, but I just don’t see evidence of that being hard fact in the Bible. It makes far more sense to conclude that angels are rejoicing over an additional soul being gathered up to be a people, a Body, The Bride, of Christ. Everything is for Him. Angels for created to do God’s will (which emcompasses several things which I’ll write about in my blog soon) and to be perfect in holiness (little “h”) being solely devoted to worshipping The Lord. Why do they worship? He is Holy, Holy Holy; all things were created by and for Him (see Isaiah 6:2-3, Revelation 4:8, Colossians 1:16). Once we realize and internalize the sheer Holiness of God, then we can begin to more deeply grasp His wonderous love and thus, be ever-more amazed at the miracle of salvation and The Gospel.
Questions to ask yourself:
- How dow God’s Holiness affect your gratitude in your life? Does that attitude bear fruit in your life by the choices you make – whether in thought or action?
Prayer:
(Free prayer; think about how amazed you are at God’s Holiness and speak your heart of worship)