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#GeraldsDevotional
Houston We Have a Problem! – God’s Holiness

#GeraldsDevotional
Houston We Have a Problem! – God’s Holiness

Yesterday we talked about God’s character of love. It’s not something that He says or does, but it is what He is. Well, there is another essence of God that is even deeper than His love… His holiness. He is holy and

He calls us to be holy (1 Thessalonians 4:7).

God’s holiness and purity is His essence that comes even before His love, mercy and grace. Before everything else, God is holy. NOTHING can ever contaminate that holiness. This is why out of His love for us, our Heavenly Father

placed the veil of separation between us and the angel with the flaming sword guarding the way back into the garden of Eden. He did this out of love to protect us. If sin was ever in His presence even for a moment, His essence would immediately destroy it. His holiness is a very

serious matter and one that we don’t always take seriously enough in our journey.
Our Problem

God’s judgment is fast approaching (deep inside we all know it… even Satan knows it very well). Yet we are busy in many ways today trying to fix ourselves or to point out problems in

others and pray to fix them. When Jesus was here among us, He often observed these things in everyone around Him and pointed out that they didn’t understand. They couldn’t fix themselves and should stop focusing on the problems of others (like the woman caught in adultery or the

speck in our brother’s eye). Even if the log in our own eye were only a speck, that speck would be enough to banish us forever from God’s presence.

So, understanding both the nature of our problem and the essence and depth of God’s holiness, it is incumbent on each of us today

to turn to Him in humility, recognize who He is and who we are, and ask for help that only He can give us with our problem. A great picture of this type of recognition is seen when John came into the presence of the Angel of the LORD in Revelation 1:17 and his immediate response

was to fall to the ground on his face at the Angel’s feet. That is the spirit that we all need today to understand and deal with our problem (just as the great apostle John knew that he had a problem).

Today’s verses give us two views into that throne room where God’s angels

testify to the awesome perfection of God’s holiness.
Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with

two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” - Isaiah 6:1-3 6 Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in

the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was

like a flying eagle. 8 The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” 9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor

and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory

and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” - Revelation 4:6-11
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