Seize the Moment – Day 1221
Right Worship of the Holy God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, July 21.
What does it mean that God is holy? Psalm 99:1-3 exalts God with magnificent terms, “The Lord reigns, let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake! The Lord is great in Zion, and He is exalted above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name; holy is He.” When we say that God is holy, we are saying God is separate from and distinctly different from all things. He transcends all human understanding!
What does it look like then to give God right worship? We are commanded in verse 5, “Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His footstool; holy is He.” While we exalt a God who is beyond us, transcendent in all His glory, we worship a God who has chosen to make Himself known to us so that we may have a relationship with Him. This was exemplified in verses 6-7, “Moses and Aaron were among His priests, and Samuel was among those who called on His name; they called upon the Lord and He answered them. He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept His testimonies and the statute that He gave them.”
It is mind blowing to me that God been given an unholy humanity access to what is by definition inaccessible to us. How is right worship even possible? The answer is found in a single word: Love! God so loved the world that He stepped through the veil, entering His creation to forever give us access to His transcendent glory. When you access God through the prescribed way of Jesus Christ, God gives you His righteousness, calling you one of His holy ones – eternally sealing you with His transcendent glory, the Holy Spirit!
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 99, meditating upon the holiness of God – “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3; cf. Revelation 4:8).
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