Songs for Worship #26

Welcome to the Sunday Series

Last year from January to June I wrote a series on
Why We Worship  where I considered an attribute of God each Sunday.


At different times people mentioned to me about a song that a post reminded them of so I thought that I would now go through those attributes again with a song for each one.

Today we come to our last post in this series.

                         Looking today at 

God is the Great "I AM"

Holy

What heart could hold the weight of Your love

And know the heights of Your great worth

What eyes could look on Your glorious face

Shining like the sun

You are holy, holy, holy

God most high and God most worthy

You are holy, holy, holy

Jesus, You are

Jesus, You are

Your name alone has power to raise us

Your light will shine when all else fades

Our eyes will look on Your glorious face

Shining like the sun

Who is like You, God?

You are holy, holy, holy

God most high and God most worthy

You are holy, holy, holy

Jesus, You are

Jesus, You are

Who shall we say You are

You're the living God

Who shall we say You are

You're the Great I AM

The highest name of all

You're all You say You are

You are holy, holy, holy

God most high and God most worthy

You are holy, holy, holy

Jesus, You are

Jesus, You are

And You shall come again in glory

To judge the living and the dead

All eyes will look on Your glorious face

Shining like the sun

Who is like You, God?

If you would like to see the post from last year that this is based on please click on the graphic below

Thank you for joining with me for this Songs for Worship Series and I hope you have enjoyed the songs as much as I have.

Why We Worship 5

I am taking time each week to ask myself "Why we worship"

Psalm 99 

The Lord reigns;
Let the peoples tremble!
He dwells between the cherubim;
Let the earth be moved!
2 The Lord is great in Zion,
And He is high above all the peoples.
3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name—
He is holy.

4 The King’s strength also loves justice;
You have established equity;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt the Lord our God,
And worship at His footstool—
He is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called upon His name;
They called upon the Lord, and He answered them.
7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar;
They kept His testimonies and the ordinance He gave them.

8 You answered them, O Lord our God;
You were to them God-Who-Forgives,
Though You took vengeance on their deeds.
9 Exalt the Lord our God,
And worship at His holy hill;
For the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 99 

has only 9 verses and three of those verses proclaim the reason for worshipping God that we are considering today.

          Verse 3
                 Let them praise Thy great and terrible Name for it is Holy

          Verse 5
                 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; for He is Holy.

          Verse 9
                 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His Holy hill; for the Lord our God is Holy

Why would the Psalmist need to tell us what appears to be the same thing?

Simply because it is not the same.

I believe this Psalm was very deliberately written with these three verses, it is not idle repetition.

Repetition with God's Word shows us how important something is and it is to be carefully noted.

Firstly   we are told that God's Name is Holy

and then 

Twice   we are told that God is Holy.

An indication that everything about God is Holy.

Yes in two of the verses we are told to worship God because He is Holy but in each case a different place is mentioned.

We are meant to worship God wherever we are 

because He is Holy no matter where we are.

There is never a time or place when God is not Holy.

We may feel as if some place is holier than another but God is always Holy 

and the place will not determine what He is like 

nor how we should treat Him.

Do you worship God differently depending on where you are?

Do you believe God is Holy?