# Holiness Day 1 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *Gracious and loving God, you know the deep inner patterns of my life that keep me from being totally yours. You know the misformed structures of my being that hold me in bondage to something less than your high purpose for my life. You also know my reluctance to let you have your way with me in these areas. Hear the deeper cry of my heart for wholeness and by your grace enable me to open to your transforming presence in this time. Lord, have mercy. (Invitation to a Journey by Robert Mulholland Jr.)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 99 #### The Lord Our God Is Holy *99 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble!He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!2 The Lord is great in Zion;he is exalted over all the peoples.3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!Holy is he!4 The King in his might loves justice.[a]You have established equity;you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.5 Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool!Holy is he!* *6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests,Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the Lord, and he answered them.7 In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.8 O Lord our God, you answered them;you were a forgiving God to them,but an avenger of their wrongdoings.9 Exalt the Lord our God,and worship at his holy mountain;for the Lord our God is holy!* #### Scripture for the Day: Isaiah 6:1-8 #### Isaiah's Vision of the Lord *6 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[a] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:* *“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;* *the whole earth is full of his glory!”[b]* *4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”* *6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”* *Isaiah's Commission from the Lord* *8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”* #### Reading for Reflection: *For the Christian, therefore, holiness is the fruit of our association with Jesus. It seems to set us apart, not in the sense of being other-worldly, but rather in the sense of being grasped by the Kingdom vision that formed the center of Jesus’ life and message. The call to holiness is a call to live in this world, but not of it—meaning that as we open ourselves to the relationship Jesus offers, we are more and more able to live from a perspective and a vision that transcends what we normally experience. (Invitation to Holiness by James Fenhagen)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Holy, Holy, Holy *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!* *Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee,* *Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;* *Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,* *Which wert and art and evermore shalt be.* *Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee,* *Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see,* *Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee,* *Perfect in power, in love, and purity.* *Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!* *All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth and sky and sea.* *Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!* *God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!* ### Closing Prayer: *Thank you Lord, that you see me as holy because of the gift of your Son. Help me to celebrate the holiness you have given me by being wholly yours this day. Amen. (JLB)* ---------------------