“Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool! Holy is He!”
The Lord’s holiness is reason for praise, exaltation, and worship. Everything about Him is holy, and Psalm 99 proclaims that message with a threefold refrain in, verses 3, 5, and 9. His holiness is praiseworthy because He is absolutely unique, one of a kind, and there is no other like Him. He is exalted over all, untouched by sin or fault, “perfect in power, in love and purity.”
But Psalm 99’s refrain is more than a declaration, it is also a call to action. We are exhorted to praise the Lord’s great and awesome name, to exalt Him, and to worship at His footstool. God is holy; and therefore, He is to be praised!
Ironically, evil spirits were the first to acknowledge that Jesus was “the Holy One of God” (Mark 1:24; Luke 4:34). But later in Jesus’ earthly ministry, Peter too was led to confess: “You are the Holy One of God” (John 6:69), even the centurion standing his post at the foot of the cross upon Jesus’s death stated: “Surly this was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39).
Because of His sacrificial death, the Holy Son of God has made it possible for us (people who are anything but holy in ourselves), to be holy and blameless before Him” (Eph. 1:4). And so we praise Him, not only in word, but also in deed. For the Lord our God is holy!
The Truth: "There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.” (1 Samuel 2:2)
