“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)
Holy, and not Goody or Happy or Nicey, and not even Mighty or Smarty—God is holy. He is different from all other things, and in that way, He is incomprehensible to us. The medieval theologian, Thomas Aquinas, described God as truly simple, singular in a way that we cannot imagine.
Yet as the angels also declared to Isaiah, this Holy God is happily available to the earth that He has made—“the whole earth is full of His glory.” God spoke out of His perfect, undisturbed satisfaction and created a whole world to be loved by Him. Again, He is holy and therefore different from us. We, finding ourselves perfectly satisfied, might be inclined not to seek anything more, but God, in His satisfaction, sought the creation of many more, that they too might be satisfied.
Here is the God who would set aside His personal joy to seek the lost. Here is the Father who would give up His Son to death, that the dead might be saved; here is the Son, who would suffer the absence of His Father to comfort the orphaned; here is the Comforter, who would gladly give all glory to the Son and His Father that a whole world of sinners might believe.
He is holy, not nicey and not goody. He is different from us, and thank God He is.
LET US PRAY: Holy Father of our Lord Jesus Christ: send Your Holy Spirit of love upon all the earth, and enrapture every creature with the glory of Your Son; in His name, the holy name of Jesus. Amen
Pastor Steven K. Gjerde
Zion, Wausau
