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Recently, I’ve been a bit, well, perplexed to say the least. I mean, it’s a given that God is mysterious; He’s just so big. Maybe I’m just a little slow intellectually (actually, this is quite possible…), but God is just so difficult to understand. Attempting to even begin wrapping my tiny pea-sized brain (relatively speaking) around how infinite our God is simply leaves me scratching my head.
Despite His depth and His infinite love, life, grace, He continues to make sense of life somehow.
I’ve often said that my life is kind of ridiculous. My entire existence thus far has been comprised of those “what in the world, God?” moments. From being called to something that makes absolutely no logical sense, to the different seasons I’ve experienced, to the people that have impacted my life.
It’s all been so…*insert appropriate adjective here*. In all seriousness, seeing God beautifully orchestrate every minuscule detail of my life with the sole purpose to bring glory to Himself? Leaves me absolutely speechless.
Between the work that God has been doing, wrestling with my own fear, insecurities, doubts, and overall sin leaves me spiritually exhausted.
A confession? I’ve been struggling with paralyzing fear since, well, what seems like an eternity. Fear of anything and everything. Again, it’s been and continues to be spiritually exhausting. Mostly because, as I’ve been learning, fear equates to sin. In fact, fear tends to be the root of sin in general, at least in my own life.
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Thus, in allowing this fear to take root in my heart, I’ve also been letting sin take root in my heart.
Why am I sharing all of this with you this today? Well, during this particular season of my life – the “desert season”, as I’ve so affectionately called it – God continues to bring me back to one thing.
Holiness.
This very real, very relevant characteristic of our God is all too often over-looked.
God is infinitely divine, infinitely magnificent, infinitely set-apart. He is beautiful in all of His splendor and His majesty, and He is absolutely perfect.
My friends, this is not a truth that should be taken lightly. So many have become immune, desensitized to the fact that our God is a holy God.
Standing in His light, all of our greatest accomplishments, all of our “good deeds” are merely dirty rags; in His presence, we are nothing. And yet, to those of us who are in Christ, we ourselves are called holy.
When you truly fix your eyes on this truth, it is impossible not to be motivated to seek God with all your heart in reverence, in awe. Meditate on this, take it to heart, let it be the thing that defines your life, the thing that gives you purpose.
Know that you are loved, know that you are holy, know that God has made you clean.
