Isaiah 6:1-3 NASB says, 1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.”

What that verse just told us is what the atmosphere of heaven is like. It is an atmosphere of worship. Why worship God? The first thing that comes to my mind is we worship God because He first loved us! But the second thing that this truth brings to my mind is this: God’s love is perfect in every way. His love is holy!
God is holy. He is perfectly pure. Out of His holiness…His purity…flows everything about Him…flows the reality of Who He really is! He is love – but He is pure love. He is righteous – and cannot tolerate sin. We must continually lay down our lives that we might be alive to His holiness.
To be confronted with sin hurts our flesh – but gives life to our spirit! When we allow the Holy God to prune our flesh today, the good fruit of righteousness is born and new life always begets more new life! I don’t know about you, but knowing this about the perfect holy love of God makes me want to say, “Let Your light shine in me Lord that I might know You more every day! I love You!”

1 Peter 1:14-16 NASB says, 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts [which were yours] in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all [your] behavior; 16 because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”

Our God is holy and because we are new creations in Christ, we are holy, too! Even when we fall, the blood of Jesus seals our holiness. Being holy is part of your true nature in Christ…in spite of your failures…in spite of your temptations…in spite of your circumstances…in spite of momentary lapses in our memory of who and Whose we are! Holy is who we are. It’s in our spiritual DNA. If you fall in sin, seek God’s forgiveness, receive it, forgive yourself and move on down the road toward Jesus!
How can we practically walk in holiness in a world that is vile and dark and evil - the opposite of all God calls holy:

Mattew 5:44-48 NASB says, 44 "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on [the] evil and [the] good, and sends rain on [the] righteous and [the] unrighteous. 46 "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 "If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing [than others?] Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”


The holiness of God is manifest in an outpouring of His love on us…and as joint-heirs with Christ - as ambassadors of the kingdom of Christ - we can bring a bit of holiness into the world around us simply by walking in love. It’s easy to love those who return our love…but what about loving those who profess to be our enemies or those who persecute us due to our faith? Can you love them? Will you love them? It is a holy thing to do…and you, as a new creation in Christ, ARE holy by virtue of the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ. Now go out and be conduits of God’s holy love to a lost and dying world!
Dennis Jernigan

To listen to The Dennis Jernigan Podcast on this subject and to hear a song inspired by the holiness of God, go to http://podcast.dennisjernigan.com/e/holy-holy-you-are-lord/

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