# Holiness Day 2 > 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 61:10-11 *10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God,* *for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.* *11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.* #### Reading for Reflection: *In holiness and righteousness: these are characteristics of God’s covenant people. The righteous are those who stand in right relationship with God, trusting him above every created thing (above parents, spouses, one’s own abilities, money) and performing with joy the requirements that come with this particular covenant (loving one another as Jesus loved us). The holy, likewise, are those whose relationship with God separates them (even as God is separate) from the godless world. They neither serve the world nor take their identity from the world’s standards, judgments, opinions, delights, behaviors. They are strangers here. But they are also, therefore, free and fearless!* *(Preparing for Jesus by Walter Wangerin Jr.)* #### 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)*