James H. Cagle
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The Bible says, “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” (Ps. 29: 2, 1 Chron. 16: 29; Ps. 96: 9).
There’s something beautiful about holiness. Holiness is the most beautiful thing in the world and in Heaven. It’s beautiful in the way it came from God to man through His Son Jesus Christ.
This beauty comes to a person when they repent of their sins and trust Christ as their Savior. They have then been given beauty for ashes (Is. 61: 3). There would be no holiness in the world had it not been for Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God, and the work of the Holy Spirit.
What’s beautiful about holiness is the way it beautifies the soul and life of those who possess it. Holiness is beautiful because it is a reflection of the life of Christ. And God desires the beauty of His Son Jesus to be seen in all His children.
Our text tells us that we are to worship God in the “beauty of holiness.”
If something is beautiful, it’s desirable and accepted.
To be beautiful before God, and our worship to be accepted by Him, we must clothe ourselves with the holiness and beauty of Jesus Christ (Eph. 5: 26, 27). Jesus’ beauty is perfect because His holiness is perfect.
It is coming before God in worship and standing before Him in the beauty of Christ’ holiness that makes our worship acceptable to Him.
And without Christ holiness our worship is rejected.
The world gives attention to outer beauty which is as a flower that fades away. God gives attention to inner beauty which lasts for eternity.
God sees holiness as the beautiful thing it is, because it came about through a person who died to their own will in order to do His holy will, to honor and glorify Him, and to possess the same beauty and likeness of His Son Jesus Christ.
Holiness
Holiness: what can it be?
And is Christ’s holiness for me?
Dear blood-washed child of the living God,
This is the way believers must trod;
Sanctified, and set free to be
As Jesus Christ, our Surety.
Holiness: a wonderful thing,
Surrendering all to Jesus my King.
Dying to self, my soul takes its flight
To new heights of glory, beauty, and light.
All is in Christ; my heart is at rest.
Christ is my all; I’m happy and blest.
Holiness: just what does it mean,
To be virtuous, pure, and clean?
To love this One Whom I’ve never seen;
Walk with Him and His friend be,
And always with Him to agree,
Bending my heart in harmony?
Holiness: God’s will wrought in me,
That others, through me, Christ’ beauty may see.
He takes me first as a piece of clay;
With loving devotion, He molds me each day;
God using the Word, Christ’s image to trace,
A vessel of honor, reflecting His grace.
James H. Cagle
Glory Hallelujah. I am blessed. God bless you
Thank you for this – I was reading 1 Chronicles 16. 29 this morning – and wanted to find a definition of worshiping the Lord in the beauty of holiness – and your peiece popped up. A nice find coming from my own home state out of all of the world for this insight.
Thanks so much This is more than gold oh how blessed am I to come across this massage
Holiness is God’s divine trade mark. Without holiness no man will see God.
God’s Holiness is my deepest heart’s cry ,oh for more grace to receive a greater fullness os Jesus and His sweet Holiness Amen.
I was so moved by this teaching on The beauty of holiness.thank you for sharing
This is great insights. I’m blessed through it.
This is a very wonderful write up on holiness. Kudos, keep the good work going. God bless
This concept of God’s beauty dropped in my spirit in prayer this morning and immediately I was flooded with the presence of the Holy Spirit. I was in tears as He opened up the sweet aroma of His anointing in such a beautiful way. I began to recall scriptures which spoke of the beauty of the Lord. As I was digging further , I came across this wonderful teaching and thought, how timely and divinely orderd it is. Thank you for sharing. God is awesome and truly a beautiful person. I want to serve Him in the beauty of His holiness forever. God bless you.
When I think of worshiping God I hears this sound that HEAVEN IS MY LIMIT. and I believe in that for sure.
You alone is BLESSED. Because there is nothing higher than me being in the universal reams of high worship with God, And i need him to dwell in me more deeper than I’ve ever expected to, I really believe that this HEAVEN shall not pass my spirit. When I’m done living this world….. A M E N
ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS HIGH HOLINESS AND WORSHIP
My prayer is that the eyes of the people of God may open up and see what really God wants us to do. The church of the old age got themseves in sin unknowingly, but the church of this age, ignorantly sin knowingly while misinterpreting the dimension of the grace of God and it’s perimeter, sin has become a lifestyle in today’s church that has made the word holiness to just look like A SAYING, Church has become a religious center and not a holiness center which was the agender of the founder of church JESUS CHRIST. May God help us to offer to Him a service that is Holy and acceptable to Him
Amen. You are soo right.
This is so good, Without Christ there is no holiness
I heard in the Wind this morning, “In the Beauty of Holiness”, and my search came up with your article. There is no Beauty without Holiness and there is no Holiness without Jesus! The Church can only arise if it recaptures it’s essence of “the Beauty of Holiness”. So what will it take for the Church to arise? Worship from a surrendered heart….. The question begs, “And what will it take for such surrender…..?” Let us call upon the mercy of God.