Holier Than Thou

Pure poetry. Do yourself a favor and listen to this on audiobook - Jackie truly has a gift for speaking. I want to listen to this on REPEAT.

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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I don't remember the day I thought about it and i my coffee was iced or warm. What I know is that what I thought, and what I thought of, I wanted an answer for: “If God is holy, then He can't sin. If God can't sin, then He can't sin against me. If He can't sin against me, shouldn't that make Him the most trustworthy being there is?”

HOLIER THAN THOU

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* that is, “acting or being without the intervention of another object, cause, or agency;” not “instant.” (definition from Merriam-Webster.com).

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HOLIER THAN THOU

God's holiness is essential to His nature and fundamental to His being. His holiness is what makes Him good, and loving, and kind, and faithful. Without holiness, God wouldn't be beautiful, and so because of it, He is eternally attractive. Think about the opposite of it being present in Him and you may see my point. If He were sovereign, but wicked, with no inner righteousness to restrain His hand, I wouldn't be surprised if the world was no more. If He had all power without love, our refusal to love Him back would result in cosmic abuse or maybe a million more floods with no rainbow to promise His relent. If He were an unholy God, what would salvation even mean? What is deliverance to a self-centered “savior”? Thankfully, our God is incomprehensibly holy and therefore completely beautiful in all of His ways and works. This is why we are invited to worship Him as such, and in so doing, we become just as beautiful as He is.

* How not-at-all-surprising for a poet and hip-hop artist to have lyrical prose.

Wonderful, clear, well spoken on a topic that is easy to muddle. This book is absolutely worth the read.