Today's Journal
THE BEAUTY OF HIS HOLINESS
The Psalmist wrote, “Give unto the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Isaiah, a prophet, wrote, “Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off.” The Beauty of His Holiness is a difficult concept without a natural setting to give us a concept. We see the beauty of his holiness in nature and natural phenomenon, i.e., sunrise, sunsets, trees and forests, rivers, canyons, oceans, rock formations, stars, moon, sun, etc.To deal with “the holy” part of God is even more difficult without some kind of “natural” way to describe, picture, illustrate, explain or portray “the holy.” Thus, we think of wind, fire, rain, and clouds (natural) as does the scriptures. The other way to describe “the holy” is to deal with what are called the attributes of God. And these too (invisible, omnipotent, immutable, etc.) are rather foggy concepts without placing them in a natural understanding of some kind.
It takes a “natural” man to explain “natural things” and it takes someone who has been with God to explain God.
As Paul wrote: “However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.” (1 Corinthians 15:46)
But thankfully we have the incarnate Christ to explain the Father. John, an apostle, wrote, “No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side…he has revealed him” (John 1:18)
Jesus tells us of the Father and the Beauty of His Holiness.
“He who has seen me has seen the Father.” Jesus