Monday, September 29, 2025
Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy. Matthew 6:9
The Holiness of God
The holiness of God is something that we, as humans, will never fully comprehend until we get to heaven. We will all come face to face with Jesus someday and one of my favorite songs puts it beautifully:
A million angels fall
Face down on the floor
All to echo, "Holy is the Lord"
My heart can't help but sing
With all of Heaven roar
Forever echo, "Holy is the Lord"
(Echo Holy by Red Rocks Worship)
I can’t even imagine how this will be when we join a million angels echoing “Holy is the Lord!” over and over again, forever. What will that sound like? Generation upon generation will gather together at his feet declaring, praising and worshipping him for all eternity. He alone is worthy of this eternal praise. In the meantime, how can we come before a Holy God with the proper attitude?
Yesterday Pastor Jim said that prayer is The overwhelming knowledge of God and his presence and place in the world meets with our overwhelming life experience. Then we are put in the proper context to be able to deal with the things in our lives. When we find ourselves overwhelmed in our life experience, we can take it to him in a humble surrender.
We are currently in a series on The Lord’s Prayer, titled “Pray Like This.” The Lord’s prayer is a model Jesus gave us to help us pray in the right way – a way that will help us live and look more and more like him every day. Our key truth for this series is, “To pray like Jesus prayed is to see like Jesus saw, trust like Jesus trusted, and live like Jesus lived.”
As we have said, every line of the Lord’s Prayer teaches us something. The words your name be honored as holy help us to reflect on and understand more clearly who God is and how we are supposed to honor him.
Most of the time we try to fix our problems on our own. We wait until things completely blow up or we have made it ten times worse by trying to fix things in our own power before we start praying. Pray should be the first thing we do. Our Heavenly Father should be the first place we go. But unless we are adoring God in our lives over and above all, we can’t even come before him in the proper way, or with the proper attitude. We may try to forget our circumstances by turning to idols to take away the pain or forget the problems we cannot solve. An idol is anything we love more than we love God. We seek answers where only more problems are to be found. There is no answer to be found anywhere other than with God. He is the only answer to everything. As long as we have our eyes on some other object of adoration, we will never see the holiness of God. If we never see his holiness, we will never surrender, and surrender is the only way to come before Holy God.
We are desperate humans, living in a fallen world who have been given an invitation to God’s mercy and grace. We have a Holy God who cares about us when we are unworthy of even a thought from Him. Yet He, in his perfect holiness, meets us in our mess and takes it from us, filling us with himself. We then take that holiness and share it with the world so they too can understand and experience his love, grace, mercy, forgiveness and salvation – all that can only come from a Holy God.
Who or what do you honor as holy?
In the secret places who or what is on your mind? What dominates your thoughts?
Do others see his holiness in your life?
