Jeremiah Burroughs makes this quote on p. 27 of Gospel Worship, "God stands upon nothing more than to appear to all the world to be a holy God." He goes on to expound on this on the next page as well. Above all things God desires that His holiness be glorified above all other attributes or acts that He has done.
This concept that God's holiness is what He wants to be pointed out above all else is foreign to me. Yes I praise Christ for his death on the cross, for God's faithfulness, etc. But when it comes to praising God for Him being holy, for being set apart from and set above all other things and beings in the universe, it is something I'm not sure I totally understand. Does the general Christian practice praising God above all other things that He is holy? Do we even understand what holy means when it comes to God? How do we practice praising God for Him being holy? What does it look like for us to have a mindset of God being holy above all other awesome things that He is?
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