Reply To: The Holiness of God, Chapter 7 – War and Peace with a Holy God

[Lynne MazzaHilway]

Yes Tom, access to our holy God, thank you Jesus for leaving us such a “legacy, along with the first fruit of justification, peace/shalom – and that awful emptiness is filled, our hearts may be still.” But we know it’s a remarkable peace, not as the world gives but the kind as a favorite song reminds me, where I can ‘sleep peacefully with answers out of reach from me.’
We, like Job, “long to be justified, hopefully without suggesting that perhaps God has done evil, casting a shadow over divine wisdom by his(our) own ignorance. Yet we’re not satisfied with answers or words but with God Himself, able to live comfortably with unanswered questions”-faith, resting absolutely in God’s sovereignty!
This peace should be evident in our lives as we worship Him with our whole hearts, our all.

I love the imagery in Jacob’s ladder dream of the angels ascending to and descending from heaven- Jesus is that all access ladder! Like Jacob “we must know what it means to fight with God all night if we are also to know what it means to experience the sweetness of the soul’s surrender; surrendering our name, soul and relinquishing control and authority over our own life. (And to conclude with) Surely the Lord was (is) in this place and I wasn’t (we aren’t always) aware of it.” He gives us a new awareness, new name and identity, we are born again, praise Him!