OFFENDING THE HOLINESS OF GOD
OFFENDING THE HOLINESS OF GOD “And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory...Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.” ISAIAH 6:3,5. Isaiah’s reaction to the holiness of God, should stand as an example to us all for our own on-going responses to the presence of God! Sadly it is not always so! My personal experience over the last twenty five years has been to observe a sharp decline in many churched people’s understanding of just Who it is they ‘worship’! The “Holiness of God” is, it seems, a subject which seldom sees the light of day. Better perhaps, in the minds of many preachers, is the exhortation of the hearers to become successful, rich and over-comers of every adverse situation in which we may find ourselves. Appealing as this m...