HOLY AND AWESOME

When the Psalmist spoke of God he said, ‘Holy and awesome in His name” (Ps. 111:9).  It’s true, isn’t it?  God is holy and He is awesome.  How could we reach any other conclusion.  He is the God of grace and love and mercy, working so as to draw people into Himself.

                       

When the prophet, Isaiah, spoke of God he said, “Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock” (Is. 26:4).  What a great word for a world like ours, so needy and hurtful, so angry and bitter, so selfish and self-serving. 

                       

Things don’t have to be the way they are.  Things can change.  People can change.  God can enter into stories and redirect the storyline.  In fact, that is exactly what God did and is doing, in the life of Jesus the Messiah.

                       

The weak and powerless have an advocate, the afflicted and helpless have a voice.  The unassailable city (Is. 26:5), the fortress that keeps the weak, weak, and the powerless, powerless, has met an adversary and that adversary is God.  The powers that afflict, are now afflicted by the standard of their own measure.  God’s “Upright One” (Is. 26:7), is on the move and grace is on the horizon.  The future can be different than the past.  A new way of being is afoot, and those who trust in God will be kept in peace (Is. 26:3).

                       

God is going to take down falsehood and raise up truth.  God is going to bring a reversal of fortune.  The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.  In Jesus Christ, God redefines the meaning of things, and He will “establish peace” (Is. 26:12).  The thing this world most needs is found in God’s Upright One.  In Him the life we all seek is here. In Christ we study war no more and we “learn righteousness” (Is. 26:9).  We come to the place of peace and discover we are home.