Sunday's Hymn: God's Holiness

I’m still featuring hymns that teach us something about God’s attributes. This week’s hymn is one of Charles Wesley’s thousands of hymns. I chose it because it has the words are the best I could find for nailing down something of what it means that God is holy. God’s holiness refers to his purity, yes, but it’s more than that. God’s holiness is the attribute of diety, or, as some call it, his “otherness.” My favorite way to think of God’s holiness is as his “godness.”

Holy As Thou, O Lord, Is None

Holy as Thou, O Lord, is none;
Thy holiness is all Thine own;
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours—a drop derived from Thee.

And when Thy purity we share,
Thine only glory we declare;
And, humbled into nothing, own,
Holy and pure is God alone.

Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all Thy heav’nly hosts adored,
Let all on earth bow down to Thee,
And own Thy peerless majesty.

Thy power unparalleled confess,
Established on the Rock of peace;
The Rock that never shall remove,
The Rock of pure, almighty, love.

More on God’s holiness:

• God’s Holiness
  

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• I Want a Principle Within at joythruChrist
• The Collect for Septuagesima at Magic Statistics
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 3, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
  
• Like a River Glorious at Hiraeth
  
• Come Thou Almight King at Seasoning of the Heart
• Father of Mercies, Bow Thine Ear at Whatever Things…

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.