What a sublime perfection is this! It would seem to form the loftiest theme for
the adorations of saints and angels. They cease not day nor night to cry, "Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!" It evokes from the Church on earth her loudest
strains- "Let them praise His great and terrible name, for it is Holy!"
Holy, Holy, Holy Three!
One Jehovah evermore!
Father! Son! and Spirit! we,
Dust and ashes, would adore
Lightly by the world esteemed,
From that world by You redeemed,
Sing we here with glad accord.
Holy! Holy! Holy Lord!"
Reader, seek, in some feeble measure, to apprehend the nature of God's unswerving hatred at sin! It is the deep, deliberate, innate opposition of His nature to moral evil, which requires Him to hate it, and visit it with impartial punishment. It is not so much a matter of will as of necessity.
But what pleasure can there be in meditating on so awful a theme? The
contemplation of a God "of purer eyes than to behold iniquity" in whose sight
"the heavens are not clean!" Jesus! Your glorious atonement is the mirror in
which we can gaze unappalled on this august attribute. Your cross is, to the
wide universe, a perpetual monument and memorial of the Holiness of God. It
proclaims, as nothing else could, "You love righteousness and hate wickedness!"
Through that cross the Holiest of all Beings becomes the most gracious of all.
"Now, we can love Him," says a saint who has entered on his rest, "not only
although He is holy, but because He is holy."
[John MacDuff]
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Isaiah 6:3 ... And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Revelation 15:4 .... Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Psalm 7:11 ... God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
1 Peter 1:15-16 ... But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.❤
