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August 10
Sunday


HOLY, HOLY
HOLY

READ:
Revelation 4
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They do not rest day
or night, saying: "Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God
Almighty, who was and
is and is to come!"
__revelation 4:8
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Time flies when you're having fun." This cliche has no basis in fact, but experience makes it seem true.

When life is pleasant, time passes all too quickly. Give me a task that I enjoy, or a person whose company I love, and time seems irrelevant.

My experience of this "reality" has given me a new understanding of the scene described in Revelation 4. In the past, when I considered the four living creatures seated around God's throne who keep repeating the same few words, I thought, What a boring existence!

I don't think that anymore. I think about the scenes they have witnessed with their many eyes (v.8). I consider the view they have from their position around God's throne (v.6). I think of how amazed they are at God's wise and loving involvement with wayward earthlings. Then I think, What better response could there be? what else is there to say but "Holy, holy, holy"?

Is it boring to say the same words over and over? Not when you're in the presence of the one you love. Not when you're doing exactly what you were designed to do.

Like the four creatures, we were designed to glorify God. Our lives will never be boring if we're focusing our attention on Home and fulfilling that purpose. __Julie Ackerman link

`````````````````````````````Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!`````````````````````````````
``````````````````````Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;`````````````````````````
````````````````````````````Holy, holy holy! Merciful and mighty!````````````````````````````
```````````````````````God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! __Heber`````````````````````````
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A heart in tune with God can't help
but sing His praise.

***************************************Today's Bible Reading __ Revelation 4***************************************
1 After these things I
looked, and behold, a door
standing open in heaven.
and the first voice which I
heard was like a trumpet
speaking with me, saying,
"Come up here, and I will
show you things which
must take place after this."

2 Immediately I was in the
spirit; and behold, a throne
set in heaven, and One sat
on the throne. 3 And he
who sat there was like a
jasper and a sardius stone in
appearance; and there was a
rainbow around the throne,
in appearance like an
emerald. 4 Around the
throne were twenty-four
thrones, and on the thrones
I saw twenty-four elders
sitting, clothed in white
robes; and they had crowns
of gold on their heads....

6 Before the throne there
was a sea of glass, like
crystal. And in the midst of
the throne, and around the
throne, were four living
creatures full of eyes in
front and in back. 7 The first
living creature was like a
lion, the second living
creature like a calf, the third
living creature had a face
like a man, and the fourth
living creature was like a
flying eagle. 8 The four
living creatures, each
having six wings, were full
of eyes around and within.
And they do not rest day or
night, saying:
"Holy, holy, holy, Lord
God Almighty, who was
and is and is to come!"

9 Whenever the living
creatures give glory and
honor and thanks to Him
who sits on the throne, who
lives forever and ever, 10 the
twenty-four elders fall
down before Him who sits
on the throne and worship
him who lives forever and
ever, and cast their crowns
before the throne, saying:

11 "You are worthy, O
Lord, to receive glory and
honor and power; for you
created all things, and by
Your will they exist and
were created."