Psalm 15:1
O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
What a glorious question, and yet what a convicting question. The heart of God’s people should be able to look at this and know there is only One who can do this.
There is no humanistic glory, wisdom, or righteousness that can do anything to earn the right to know God and to dwell in His presence. For there is none who are righteous, and we all deserve judgment.
For our God is a consuming fire, holy and just. There are none who can stand before Him. He will not share His glory with any other, for to share it with a created being on that person’s own merit is to taint and diminish His glory. It is to lower His own perfection.
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.” It is by Christ and through His sacrifice that we may sojourn in the tent of our God and dwell on His holy hill.
Psalm 143:2, Hebrews 12:29, Ezra 9:15, Ephesians 2:4–5
Father, Your glory outshines the sun, and Your radiance brings me to my knees. Father, I am so tempted to believe the world and my flesh that I am “good enough” to know You. That I am capable of standing before You on my own merit. How foolish and prideful—who am I? Yet, who am I that You would send Your only Son into the world to pay the penalty for my sin? To take Your wrath and Your holy justice, that I may be a child of Yours! Thank You, Father. Open my eyes to this truth more and more, that I may praise You with all my heart! In Christ’s name. Amen