Profaning Our Holy God
God, after creating man in His own image, wanted to have a relationship with him. Yet, for man to have a relationship with a holy God, he must first deny himself and come up to the level of God, and not try to bring God down to his level. Only a holy and sinless God can set the terms of such a relationship. There are no negotiations! Failing to sanctify God, both in our heart and actions, will always result in God being profaned!
The word profane means “Common, not sanctified or set apart.” If I profane God by disobeying Him, am I not guilty of idolatry by creating an idol in my heart in trying to bring God down to my level? The word holy means to be separated and sanctified.
God pleaded with Israel to consecrate themselves and said to them, “For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, thus you shall be holy, for I am holy” (Lev. 11:44-45). God commanded Aaron, “to make a distinction between the holy and the profane and between the unclean and the clean” (Lev. 10:10).
God reminded Israel how He had borne them on eagles’ wings from Egypt and brought them to Himself. He promised them, “if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine: and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:5-6).
But Israel did not obey God or keep His covenant. Ezekiel wrote in 586 B.C., speaking of Israel: “Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them” (Ezek. 22:26).
In application, how may we profane our holy God? We may profane our holy God even in our worship by merely holding to a form of godliness while denying its power. Do we sing with grace in or hearts to the Lord? Do we give as we have prospered, cheerfully? Do we pray listening carefully to the words spoken by the leader? Do we take the Lord’s Supper discerning the body and the blood of Christ?
Remember the words of the apostle Peter: “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:14-16).
God chose us, even before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before Him in love (Eph. 1:3-4). Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church, in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless” (Eph. 4:25-27). The church, His bride, will have made herself ready for the Supper of the Lamb on that great day (Rev. 19:7-9).
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