Father,
There are many
things about You that we don't know. And while there are some things about You
that we will never know, there are some things about You that would be good for
us to know.
We know that You are
a holy God. But there really is a lot about that that we don't understand very
well.
It’s so easy to
think about Your holiness merely in terms of Your attitude toward sin. But Your
holiness is also about Your love. Your love is a holy love. So, it is a pure
love. There is nothing that spoils it or taints it or limits it. We get Your
love full strength, all the time.
The same is true of
Your grace. It is pure grace. When You grant that grace to us there is nothing
there that softens it or tones it down. It is always a life-transforming grace.
Father,
understanding this about You is such a comfort to us. Who else loves us so
purely? Who else is so completely gracious to us?
We want to thank You
that You act in these ways to us. We want to praise You for being this kind of
God, a holy God.
But it is true that,
because of Your holiness, You hate sin. We all acknowledge this, but living it
is another thing. Father, if we really understood how much You hate sin, we
would hate it more than we do. We would hate our own sin more and work harder to
put it to death. We would hate sin wherever it would show up in the world
around us.
And if we could
understand better how much You hate sin, it would make such a difference in how
we survey the wondrous Cross.
Jesus experienced
Your holy hatred of sin, Your holy hatred of our sin. If we could understand
that better we would be confronted by a question. Who would do that for me?
Father, we need to
grow in our knowledge of who You are, of what kind of God You are. It’s too
easy to settle for a knowledge that seems good enough. Don’t let that happen to
us. Teach us, Father. Teach us more about who You are. Teach us more about what
it means that You are the holy God. Teach us so that we will live in a way that
reveals the beauty of who You to our world, something that will draw many to
You. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.
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