Although we do not claim to be a religious organization in any way, our community walks with God each and every day.
We attended church this morning, and although the praise leaders we singing modern songs for the walk with God and connection Jesus Christ, the song that rang in my ears and through my heart was a song I heard from my early childhood, a song I remember my dad singing with a passionate heart, filled with love and adoration for God.
Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty
Early in the Morning my song shall rise to thee
Holy Holy Holy Merciful and mighty
God in three persons blessed Trinity
I am not going to deal in this conversation about the 3 aspects of the Trinity, we’ll save that for another time, but what struck me were 3 words: Holy, Almighty and Merciful.
Lets dwell for a moment on the word Holy.
The dictionary definition of Holy reads like this exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness. Divine for the Lord our God is holy.
So beyond knowing, the most exalted, perfect, one to give complete devotion as being the perfect Goodness, the perfect righteousness. Divine not of this world or of it’s struggles, impurities.
I think the dictionary falls short of what I experience in this word. If I were to sing this song, from my heart (as I have many times, I am swept up with emotion of the awe and wonder of God. The purity, truth and perfection of the Divine, who has taken me in as his/her own child. Our upcoming year will be filled with holiness, as we work hand in hand to restore God’s light to this realm we call home.
All mighty. All powerful. All strength. One who possesses all the Might of the Universe, is not manipulated or impure. And this ONE, who is almighty has promised the plans He/She has for us are good, right and just. I know that by myself I could do nothing, the challenges are too great, the path too difficult to tackle alone. But with God and His mighty strength we can do all that is given us to do. For to whom much is given much will be asked of, much will be required. Our academy and our work has matured, what is being given to us to do has deepened and shifted reality miraculously. It will only strengthen as we move forward.
We often speak of Grace, we use the word in blessings and as a reference of God’s unending love playing out on earth. But we rarely speak of mercy.
Grace is receiving something, a blessing of a kind, just for being, for walking in faith and even as a blessing from faith filled parents who are passing this Grace unto their offspring.
Mercy is also given, and we do not deserve it, meaning nothing we did could cause us to be a beneficiary of Mercy for a wrong we have done, but it is freely given and releases us from a harm or mistake we have committed.
I cannot say I have an interpretation for everything that has happened and is happening in my life, how it is so incredibly filled with grace every moment, yet hardships seem unending, and relief from suffering too is immediate and sure. 2 days after the car break in, and sealing of my computer, passports and checkbooks, I felt completely taken over with God’s love, the trauma of the past weeks and months wiped away and a reset securely in place.
I can say I felt calm and sure. Certain of my path, certain of the work ahead. 30 years ago exactly, a Guru looking at my suffering held my hand and said, a majority of my suffering was not sourced from what I had created, but a willingness to take the pains of humankind into my world and process it out, lightening the load for those around me.
I am ever grateful for my walk with Holy God, Creator Restorer and Bringer of Life.
I am grateful that you choose to walk with me, and I have definitely felt the effects of your love and prayers for myself, my daughter and our community.
This is a new year of Holiness, and a new year of truth experienced.
