The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
“Wholly Holy”
Part 2 - “His Way Is Perfect”
The Apostle Paul’s declaration that “God cannot lie” speaks to the broader issue that He cannot do anything that fails to align with His perfect character, nature, and way (Titus 1:2).
“The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works” (Psalm 145:17).
Whatever we read in Scripture of God’s doings, and in all of His working in human history, every action has been pristinely pure and fulfilled His spiritual and moral standard. He cannot do otherwise because He cannot be otherwise. Our Lord is perfectly holy and thus perfectly sanctified to Himself and His heart and mind of perfection. He is wholly holy from everlasting to everlasting, including this moment in which He acts in our lives in precise accordance with the glory of the Lord Jesus and our best interests. “As for God, His way is perfect” (II Samuel 22:31).
This does not mean we always understand or perceive His perfection. Every believer in the Lord Jesus sometimes wonders at the administrations and allowances of God in our lives. Why? How? When? Our Heavenly Father does not always explain Himself. Moreover, He must presently work in ways that cause discomfort, confusion, and even utter bewilderment. No less than the Apostle Paul confessed to perplexity regarding the blessed, but challenging life to which God called him (II Corinthians 4:8). Indeed, even the best and brightest finite beings will come to venues that do not appear to involve an infinite Lord working out His perfect purposes. Little wonder, seeing that human hearts and minds have no frame of reference for perfection. We often see it without perceiving God working all things together for our good, a blessing that requires Him to fulfill His perfect purposes amid our imperfections (Romans 8:28).
If we have not done so, let us build an altar in our hearts and minds whereupon we sacrifice any notion that our Lord can do anything that fails to align with His perfect character. He literally cannot do so, a blessed purity of heart and way in God that should thrill our own hearts and illuminate our own way. Wholly holy. He will not be otherwise because He cannot be otherwise.
Weekly Memory Verse
We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.”
(II Peter 1:19)
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