Holiness #8—Praising Holiness

Holy, Holy, Holy is Yahweh, warrior deity; the fullness of the earth is his glory. Isaiah 6:3

Faithful God, there is no one like you. You alone have infinite, unexcelled, and irreplaceable worth! One day, everyone will realize and celebrate the glorious way you have displayed this worth for us. Today, I rejoice as I consider the ways you have manifested your value in the extravagance of your creation. For when I do, I realize the magnitude of your holiness again. Where simple, siloed functions would have served, you designed and constructed complex, integrated, and interrelated systems. Where one or two kinds would have sufficed, you made dozens and hundreds—fish, birds, trees, flowers, people. Even more amazing and wonderful is how gracious you were to have made me able to be a part of it all. You also enabled me to enjoy living in this vast storehouse of your treasure. What a joy it is to consider all your hands have made! “Day speaks eagerly to day, and night to night declares your praise.” And everywhere I look, I see human beings of every description, as diverse as eight billion individuals can be, yet all made by you as your images, tasked to display some unique aspect of your greatness as they realize their mandate to fill and subdue the earth. And wonder of wonders, I can be an agent for the extension of your holiness to them. By the power of your Spirit, you are sanctifying me so I can become a channel that won’t pollute your blessings as they flow through me to the people around me. May I always live so that those who experience the good I do, see that its one and only source is you. Amen and amen.