Jehovah Tsidkenu : The Lord our Righteousness
In Jer.23:5-6, a prophecy was foretold about the Kingdom of a King from the lineage of David, called a Branch of Righteousness who “shall reign and proper and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days, Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely. Now this is His Name by which He will be called:
Today, the holiness has become the casualty in our Christian circles. There is no holiness in the high places of His sanctuary. Some servants of God used of God mightily in the past succumbed to the temptations in their flesh and had fallen by the wayside. Their fall should serve as an eye-opener to us. The children of Israel were overthrown in the wilderness because of their sins like idolatry, fornication, tempting of God, and murmuring. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come” (I Cor.10:5-11).
Let us get a vision of God through the prophetic eyes of Isaiah. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: The whole earth is full of His glory”. The holiness of God is not separable from His glory i.e. His manifested presence. We see the holiness of God all over the earth. Whenever sin is committed, His holiness is revealed so that the people take cognizance of that particular sinful act. Even when sin is committed in a secret place, it stands exposed because the glory of God covers the whole earth. Every body, even an atheist, feels His glory once the sin is committed. The holiness of God exposes the sin in this world because His glory covers the whole earth. Christ, the Light of this world shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it (John 1:5).
We may have committed some sin in our thought-life or through our lips or in some area of our life without our knowledge. However, God knows it because of His glory covering the earth. As such, we have to humble ourselves before His Throne of grace and plead for a daily cleansing of our sin through the Blood of Jesus.
- Job Anbalagan