First of all, God is holy. God is completely other than us, completely different. God is holy. Totally separate from humans. Completely. So holy that we cannot look on Him and live. When God called Moses up to the mountain God instructed him to tell the people not to come near the mountain and not to even touch it lest His holiness breaks out and consumes them. Remember, Jesus had not yet come and died for their sins. They were…
This past week I have been pondering that word ‘holiness.’ Does that word make you feel uncomfortable? Uneasy? Offended, maybe? So what does it mean to be holy? Are we to be holy or is it for only a few. Maybe you don’t want to be holy. Is holiness pious behavior? Can things be holy? In looking for a picture to put with this post, I came across a variety of images. Bible, stained glass church windows, cross, temples, white…
God is always with us. Even when we don’t feel His presence. He promised to never leave us. Always with us. King David understood this when he wrote Psalm 139. 1,2 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. When you sit in the doctor’s office waiting your turn to be seen by your physician. As you sit waiting for your baby…
How have you been this week? Has the news been depressing? Has your world be shaken by upside-down behavior? Disturbing? Even, shocking? When God is rejected, those who reject Him are left in darkness. What are we as believers to do? Our society is so different than what I grew up with. How about you? I mean, who could have imagined even 30 years ago that laws would have been passed to protect behavior that we barely imagined. Now it is…
