We know all of the great attributes of God – He is all
powerful, knows all, owns all and sees all. 2 Chronicles 16:9 tells us
that “the Eyes of the Lord roam across the WHOLE earth in search of those whose
hearts are loyal to Him”. There is absolutely no doubting that fact.
But the first attribute of God is His Holiness. He abhors
sin. He despises it and even turned His back on His own Son – the Lord Jesus –
Who had to cry out from the Cross “my God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
(Psalm 22:1 and Matthew 27:46).
How do we know this? Well, the greatest Old Testament prophet, who wrote about those times as well as the End Times, was pulled up into Heaven before the Lord Himself in Isaiah Chapter 6. The first thing anyone who has had an encounter with Holy God does is this: fall down at His feet in total surrender and humility. Isaiah did it. John did it.
The next thing that happens to a man, who, in the rare
occasion, is recorded to be in the fearsome Presence of Holy God is – the
self-realization of one’s worthlessness to be in such a lofty place. Isaiahfalls down (Chapter 6) and knew immediately he was a sinner….that he was notworthy of being there….that he was a man of unclean lips, even as a man of Godand a prophet. We can relate to that today. We, every one of us, use
language which our forefathers – regardless of background – would never use and
would even consider untoward.
The Lord took care of Isaiah’s problem with swearing and
probably even blaspheming when He sent one of His emissaries to take a burning
coal off the altar to cleans the prophet’s inclination towards such speech. God
sends the Holy Spirit to convict you and I immediately after we say something we
swore we would not say 500 times before.
The third and important thing to note is the Worship in
Heaven underscores what the ministering special angels – God’s Own Special Ops– think of the Almighty. They sign back and forth “Holy Holy Holy ….”. This is reinforced in Revelation 4 and click here to read the entire amazing chapter!
Heavenly Father, we do not deserve to even be in the
same zip code as You. But You in Your love and mercy adopted us, who believe in
Jesus as Lord, as Your Children. Lord we are people of unclean lips, and too
many times unclean hearts and minds. Purify us, oh God, remove our sin as far
as the east is from the west. Wash us with hyssop that we may be clean. Cleanse
us that we may be as white as snow. May these spiritual broken bones be healed
or done away with that we may stand pure and holy before You, because You are
Holy. You are worthy. You are mighty. Forgive us as we approach in true
repentance and surrender all at the Foot of the Cross right now, in Jesus’ Name
amen.
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