EVERYWHERE—May We See the Person of Holy God
“For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ,
(The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 2: 2 NASB)
and Him crucified.”
God is Holy—so much so!
MY GOD, YOU ARE AN AWESOME GOD!
He sent His Only Son to die for sinners like you and me. The Bible tells us that when the apostle Paul encountered Christ Jesus on the road to Damascus, Paul was knocked to the ground. Each time we come face-to-face with the reality of God, do we have this same overwhelming experience? Shouldn’t we? The prophet Isaiah wrote to reveal the holiness of God, to give us a glimmer of the awesome God we adore.
“Then I said,
(The Book of Isaiah 6: 5-7 NASB)
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”
“Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand,
which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips;
and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.”
As time passes, I find myself struck by the intricate and holy work of God. Of late, when reading God’s Word, it has been revealed to me that God wants me to know Him more and more, and the LORD makes this so easy for us. The rhythmic way God spoke, the numbering of verses He allowed, and the alignment our Father provided create a personal encounter with our Creator through the reading and study of the Holy Scripture.
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,
(The Book of Isaiah 6: 3b NASB)
The whole earth is full of His glory.”
While there is no possible way to exhaust ALL that the Father has accomplished to reveal Himself to us, to restore our fellowship with us, and to save us forever, there are a few intricacies I would like us to note today.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Genesis 1: 1-2 & 1: 26a NASB)
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
. . .
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; . . .”
Notice the semicolon, a punctuation tool that denotes an end of a declaration, and independent statement, as a period denotes the end, and yet, a semi-colon, noting that there is another statement that connects in such a way that they should be connected.
“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;
(Genesis 1: 26 NASB)
and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
There is no place in the Word of God where we read how mankind rules over Holy God, and we only see how God created beings (male and female) have dominion over creatures that are earthly.
Nowhere in the Bible do we read the word “Trinity” or “Triune God,” but EVERYWHERE across God’s Word and throughout the universe we see the three distinct persons of Holy God, fully God from the very beginning.
God the Father—God the Son—God the Holy Spirit, 3 in 1, at work from the beginning of the ages when the world “was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep.” The Son of God was at work with Father God,
“and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters” there—at the beginning of time.
The incarnate Son of God, the person of Christ Jesus, the anointed Messiah, the Savior of humanity was there—“In the beginning.”
At the beginning of time, God knew darkness could not coexist with light, so the Bible says He separated the dark from the light. God knows our weak frame, for He remembers how He fashioned us from the dust of the earth. God knew we needed a Savior!
- Our sin and guilt are removed; God’s wrath against sin is fully satisfied through Christ’s work on the cross.
- We are reconciled back to God as He removes our alienation from Himself caused by our sinfulness, for we are born into THIS world.
As such, we are birthed to our parents as enemies of Holy God (from the beginning of our existence), and it is only through the death of God’s Only Son, JESUS, that we are brought back to God.
Christ’s death on the cross pays the cost, covers our sin debt, and brings reconciliation!
However, there is a stipulation:
A—WE MUST ACCEPT THE WORK OF JESUS ON THE CROSS AND IN THE GRAVE.
B—WE MUST BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS GOD’S ONLY SON. &
C—WE MUST CONFESS OUR SINS TO HOLY GOD.
- Just imagine if we could have been there (“In the beginning”), seeing with our eyes all that God was doing. &
- Just imagine if we could begin anew testifying to the world around us (“to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”)
God is Great. God is Good. Let Us Thank Him.
There is a prayer of thanksgiving that speaks the thankfulness we must voice:
“Almighty and everlasting God, You made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the mysteries of Your creation, we may come to know You more truly, and more surely fulfill our role in Your eternal purpose; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (The Book of Common Prayer)