Finding Satisfaction in the Beauty of Holiness
July 29, 2007 Leave a comment
I wanted to elaborate on the sub-title of my blog.
1st. finding satisfaction- We can be satisfied in so many ways. There are many things that satisfy. You name it, it satisfies someone. From sports, to music, to addictive habits, to stuff. Things satisfy. But what do they satisfy? These things satisfy our flesh, our bodies.
So how does the beauty of holiness satisfy our human desires. It doesn’t, and it can’t. God does not deal with his children through the flesh. So God handles us in the spirit. God is holy. And finding the beauty in holiness is spiritual.
When we talk about being satisfied in God, and being satisfied in all he has to offer, it is a spiritual thing that we find satisfaction in. This leaves us empty in our mortal nature. Maybe this is why Paul tells us to put off the very things that hinder us. Live life in the spirit and not in the flesh. So that we may be satisfied fully. There is such thing as full satisfaction and only God fulfills that need.
Maybe this is why Pascal said in other words that there is a god shaped vacuum in our hearts and when we try to fill it with things other than the satisfying things of God, that life tends to suck.
2cd, beautiful holiness- What’s so beautiful about being holy. That simple fact that God is and He wants us to be like Him. I find whatever characteristic that God has, is B-E-A-utiful!
“Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness” (Psa. 29:2). Holiness is the antithesis of sin, and the beauty of holiness is in direct contrast from the ugliness of sin. Sin is a deformity, a monstrosity. Sin is repulsive, repellent to the infinitely pure God: that is why He selected leprosy, the most loathsome and horrible of all diseases, to be its emblem. When the Prophet was Divinely inspired to depict the condition of degenerate Israel it was in these words, “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores” (Isa. 1:6). O that sin were sickening and hateful to us: not merely its grosser forms, but sin itself. At the opposite extreme from the hideousness of sin is “the beauty of holiness.” Holiness is lovely in the sight of God: necessarily so. It is the reflection of His own nature, for He is “glorious in holiness” (Exo. 15:11). O that it may be increasingly attractive to and earnestly sought after by us. Perhaps the simplest way of bringing out the beauty of holiness will be to contrast it from the beauties of time and sense.” by Arthur W. Pink
Finding satisfaction in the idea of not being looked upon as sin yet being seen as covered by the blood of Jesus, that’s beautiful holiness. May you and I find that satisfaction. And may it purge us to lose more of ourselves and commit suicide so that more of Jesus may be found in us.
I get tired of Christianity. Yep, that’s what I said. No, I’m not tired of God, or my relationship with Him, though I do get tired of fighting temptation, and getting through the day without falling flat on my face. But what I’m most tired of is church; organized religion. If you know me, then you know I am so anti-traditional. Even Jesus said traditions are wrong to hold when they are against God’s commands (
