Worthy of All Praise

Thank You

 

After learning the significance of praying “Hallowed Be Your Name” – and realizing that we honor His name by learning and recognizing His holy character and letting Him create that character in us. I found myself wanting to pause and use this time to reread a few sections of scripture and then express a wholehearted thank you to God.

 

“Thank You, Jesus, I can’t comprehend the enormity of the love and sacrifice that You made for us!”

 

As Easter approaches. we think more and more about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and how important these events are. These are the events that changed the way our personal histories could go – we no longer have to be led by shame, fear, selfishness, we can live a Christ/love-centered life with the help of the Holy Spirit.

 

 

A Call For Us To Be Holy

 

1 Peter 1:13-16 – ¹³ So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. ¹⁴ So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. ¹⁵ But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. ¹⁶ For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”

 

 

Imitate the Humility of Christ

 

Philippians 2:1-11 — Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? ² Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.

 

³ Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. ⁴ Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

 

5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

 

⁶ Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. ⁷ Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, ⁸ he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

 

⁹ Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 

 

God’s Holiness Remains the Same

 

Old Testament

Isaiah 6:1-4 – “… “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!”

 

New Testament

Revelation 4:1-10 — “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty—the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.”

 

 

We Have the Opportunity to Shine Brightly For Christ

 

Philippians 2:12-18 – ¹² … Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. ¹³ For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. ¹⁴ Do everything without complaining and arguing, ¹⁵ so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. ¹⁶ Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless. ¹⁷ But I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy. ¹⁸ Yes, you should rejoice, and I will share your joy.

 

 

Conclusion

 

I really appreciate how gotquestions.org described God’s holiness: “The holiness of God is the most difficult of all God’s attributes to explain, partly because it is one of His essential attributes that is not shared, inherently, by man. We are created in God’s image, and we can share many of His attributes, to a much lesser extent, of course—love, mercy, faithfulness, etc. But some of God’s attributes, such as omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence, will never be shared by created beings. Similarly, holiness is not something that we will possess as an inherent part of our nature; we only become holy in relationship to Christ. It is an imputed holiness. Only in Christ do we “become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). God’s holiness is what separates Him from all other beings, what makes Him separate and distinct from everything else. God’s holiness is more than just His perfection or sinless purity; it is the essence of His “other-ness,” His transcendence. God’s holiness embodies the mystery of His awesomeness and causes us to gaze in wonder at Him as we begin to comprehend just a little of His majesty.”

 

 

What struck you about these passages? Comment below