"Worship is not giddy. It does not rush into God’s presence unprepared and insensitive to His majesty. It is not shallow, superficial, or flippant.
Worship is life lived in the presence of an infinitely righteous and omnipresent God by one utterly aware of His holiness and consequently overwhelmed with his own unholiness . . .
My heartfelt concern is that there is too much shallowness today with regard to God’s holiness. Our relationship to God has become almost human, so buddy-buddy that we don’t understand his holy indignation against sin. If we burst into His presence with lives unattended to by repentance, confession, and cleansing by the Spirit, we are vulnerable to His holy reaction . . .
The response of the true worshiper to a vision of God is that, like Isaiah, he is overwhelmed with his own sinfulness and consequently consumed with a sense of holy terror. I am certain that if the people today who claim to have seen God really saw Him, they wouldn’t be lining up to get on the latest Christian talk show; they’d be lying prostrate on the ground, grieving over their sin."
(John MacArthur, Jr. in The Ultimate Priority, pp 79-80)
1 comment:
Oh my goodness, you have hit the nail on the head!
Oh to know the true holiness of God!
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