How Holy Is He?

I stand amazed and in awe of the holiness of God. I have been reading a book by R.A. Torrey entitled the Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power. In it he speaks about how to enter into the presence of God. He speaks of the seraphim in Isaiah 6 who covered their faces and feet in the presence of God. Seraphim means “burning ones”. He talks about how the seraphim are burning because they are buring with the fire of the holiness of God. They are burning with holiness. ( Oh if only I could be so holy that I burn with the fire of the Almighty God.) He goes on to say that we can enter into the presence of God simply with the covering of the blood of Jesus. Consider this. We were created a little lower than the angels and yet, they burn with His holiness. They are without sin. . .no sin nature. We were created in God’s image and because of the fall of Adam and Eve, we have a sin nature. We can never be perfectly holy as these beings. Yet, even they, being holy must cover their faces and feet in the presence of Almighty God or be consumed. What kind of god is this? How holy must He be that even sinless creatures must cover their faces in His presence? There is no one like Him in all the universe. He is so holy! And yet, we can go boldly before the Lord. We as sinful as we are do not have to cover our face to enter into His presence for we are covered by the blood of Jesus. We have a sort of blood covered force field. How wonderful that He loves us enough and wants to commune with us that we can enter with the covering of the blood of Jesus into His presence anytime we wish. Not that we would be able to look at His face, for no man has peered into the face of God and survived. But oh the joy that floods my very being to know that I am always welcome into His presence. I pray that this new year I take advantage of every opportunity to sit at the throne of God and sing with the seraphim “Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty