THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!

 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

 

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!

 

Ezek 22:26

26 Her [Israel’s] priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

 

Ezek 44:23

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

 

          Along with the cultural upheaval which so marks our time, we see a confusion between right and wrong! In questioning the sacrosanct we have committed sacrilege. In abandoning the vestments and instruments of worship, religion has become common. We gasp at nothing! We have lost both sophistication and deportment in approaching a holy God. In abandoning traditions, we have gone too far and have blurred the lines between the holy and the profane.

 

          In the Old Testament, whenever God wanted to do something with a man, he revealed himself in both majesty and holiness, for He could hardly do otherwise. In Isaiah chapter 6, Isaiah saw God high and lifted up. God revealed himself in grandeur that was awe inspiring. The contrast was so keen that Isaiah was immediately reminded of his sins. Shame, repentance, and worship were the results. In Genesis 28:16, Jacob saw a vision of a great staircase upon which angels ascended and descended from heaven to earth. He concluded that God was in that place and that he had been ignorant of it.

 

          It is the duty of the priest or pastor to teach the people that there is a difference between the holy and the profane. Only when we grasp this will our relationship with God be what it should be.

 

   

Open My Eyes, That I May See

 

Open my eyes, that I may see
Glimpses of truth Thou hast for me;
Place in my hands the wonderful key
That shall unclasp and set me free.

 

Refrain

Silently now I wait for Thee,
Ready my God, Thy will to see,
Open my eyes, illumine me,
Spirit divine!

 

Dear Lord, make crisp the lines of right and wrong in my life. Be thou holy unto me. AMEN