Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”
(Revelation 4:8 (NIV))
Have you ever read this passage and thought that it was easy for these creatures to praise God because that is what they were created to do?
Have you ever come to the realization that we, as humanity, were created to lift up praise to God? We were created to walk with God and to be in fellowship with Him, but that all came to a drastic change when Adam and Eve fell from grace in the Garden of Eden. Because we had sinned, God in all of His holiness, His righteousness, could no longer walk with us and be in fellowship with us. Perfection cannot be in the presence of sin!
I can only imagine how Adam and Eve must have felt after having that intimate relationship with God only to lose it because of a lie.
Thankfully, God had a plan of restoration, of redemption, that would allow us to trade our sinful nature for His righteousness.
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
(John 3:14-17 (NIV))
In other words, God reached down from heaven with a way to redeem us and bring us back to a loving relationship with Himself. All that we have to do is choose to accept that redemption. We have a choice because God made a choice to send His Son to redeem us to Himself! If that is not worthy of our praise, then I don’t know what is!
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,” should be forever upon our hearts and our lips.
We should never stop praising our God who loves us!
Copyright 1998 – 2018 Dennis J. Smock
Daily Living Ministries, Inc.
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