WORSHIP REFLECTIONS are weekly devotionals based on worship songs/hymns. Our hope is that this content encourages your love and adoration of Christ Jesus as you grow in closer communion with Him through personal worship.
Ethan Dupree, Minister of LOGOS Worship, First Baptist Church San Antonio, presents this worship song devotional based on the CityALight song "Only A Holy God".
Psalm 86 verse 8 & 9
There is no one like You among the gods O Lord, nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
The song “Only a Holy God” by CityAlight and Dustin Smith of Here Be Lions pairs really well with this text.
The verses, a litany of rhetorical questions that praise God’s attributes:
He is the commander of heavenly armies, King of kings, the one whose light drives out darkness, God is holy, praiseworthy, just, beautiful, powerful, majestic. God is our rescuer, and He invites us into relationship.
This all echoes Psalm 86 in proclaiming truly there is no one like our God, truly our God is holy.
And then in the chorus in true pattern of revelation and response, we are invited to come and behold the one and only, to cry out, to sing aloud in worship of our God.
In the first three verses I think to Psalm 8.
When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars suspended in space— what is man, or what are mere mortals that you should think about them, and care for them?
The first three verses of “Only a Holy God” call out God’s sovereignty, beauty, and power, and we are left in awe of God with these images. But… the last verse of this song we are really struck by an even greater sense of awe than in the beginning - even through our brokenness and our failure, God loves us, more than we could ever understand, and invites us to call him Father. Invites us to come before him. Invites us to respond.
And it’s not a matter of do you respond or not? Because even ignoring God is a response. It’s will you come, will you worship?
I love the directionality of this song me as well. It strikes me… in a corporate setting, it’s an opportunity for us to be the Body of Christ. To remind each other of God’s goodness. And not just from the stage to the pews, but alongside each other as the Body of Christ, inviting each other to come and worship GOd.
So how will you respond? Will you worship our holy God?
— Ethan Dupree, Minister of LOGOS Worship, First Baptist Church San Antonio