O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. (Psalm 96.9)
God is perfectly beautiful “in the splendor of his holiness.” The more we know about God’s perfect holiness, the more we realize that we need to walk in perfect holiness. We realize we need to live up to the way God created us to live.
Psalm 96 describes the greatness and splendor of God, who is perfectly holy and calls us to come before him with an offering. We are called to “worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness,” and yet we know how often we have failed to live as God commands. How can we truly worship God if we are not holy?
The good news that we know today is that God deals with the imperfection of our sin by giving us his perfect grace. God chooses to get rid of our sin—not by punishing us—but by taking the punishment on himself in Jesus. The more we see God’s perfection, the more we know our own imperfection. And the more we know our own imperfection, the more we are grateful for God’s perfect love, which accepts us by grace through the gift of Jesus’ life for us.
Prayer for the day
Father I thank you for your work of holiness in my life. I receive grace to walk and worship in the beauty of holiness in Jesus’ Name.
