Isaiah 57:15 – The Holy Deliverer
First, we see how God is separate from us. It is because we are by nature not only creatures and He the Creator; a difference that shall never, ever be removed, but we are sinful creatures as well. He always will be high above us and different from us. He is far beyond all the limitations we have, far beyond our ability to understand fully. He reveals to us Who He is and what He is like. He shows us His wonderful character. He shows us in the world around us. He shows it within us. For even though we’re sinners, even though the image of God is broken, we still have that broken image of God. Most especially, we see Him revealed in His Word, the written Word here in the Bible, and in Jesus Himself, who is the Word, Who has become flesh. We can understand Him truly, but we can never understand Him fully.
We secondly read that He inhabits eternity. God is not limited to time. Everything is before Him all at once. Because He inhabits eternity, He never changes. He is always holy. And what He reveals of Himself in His Word always stays the same. His eternal desire and plan to save sinners does not change. And for you believers, His everlasting purposes of love do not change. Your circumstances may, under His wise and guiding hand, but His purpose does not change. It is always, through the good times and the bad times, to make you more holy, to make you more conformed to Jesus Christ, to make you more fitted for heaven, to make you more able to enjoy His person and presence.
His Name is Holy. This means His entire character is holy. He is set apart from all the sin, and filth, and brokenness in this world. He is beautiful, and bright, and shining in his purity. He cannot abide and ever hates all that is sinful, all that is what we would call unrighteous or unjust. He is utterly right and true.
We read that this high and holy God Who inhabits eternity also dwells with the contrite and lowly. A humble or lowly one is one who is not high and exalted, but low, who knows that he is a sinner. A contrite one is weeping over the wickedness that he has done, won’t even look up to heaven, but smites himself upon his chest and says, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner’. God is with His creatures, God is with those whose hearts He graciously changes. He indwells us in the person of His Spirit.
Question
- What does this tell us about God?
Prayer Points
- Give thanks that God is near to His people.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.