OMG! Holy
@#$%!
There was a
time when you would hear people proclaim “holy cow!” as an exclamation of
unbelief or surprise at what someone did or said. Now you hear “holy @#$%!” even
from young children. It is so common place that I even hear “Christians” using
this term of surprise or unbelief at some action or statement by another person.
My wife, Charlene, and I have made the statement to family and friends that we
hear say this, “That is not Holy!” or “There is nothing Holy about that!”
I have
written a couple of papers this year on “Be Holy for I AM HOLY!” what it means
for us to be Holy to GOD and how we become Holy to GOD. Last night as Charlene
and I were talking the use of this statement came up and it suddenly hit me why
this is so offensive to us and should be to all Christians. This is blasphemy
and it can be blasphemy against The HOLY SPIRIT!
Study Matthew
12:31-37; Mark 3:20-30; Luke 12:1-12.
How, you may
ask, is saying “holy @#$%” or “OMG” blasphemy? Well, I see it as taking that
which is common or profane and calling it Holy, even in jest this is denigrating
that which is HOLY! GOD is HOLY and JESUS is HOLY and the SPIRIT of GOD is
HOLY! GOD calls us to make ourselves Holy as He is HOLY, but calling things
that are not Holy as if they are is blasphemy.
James said, “But
you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into
the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? If
you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well.” Study James 2:1-13. The Bible teaches
us that our words matter and that we need to guard our mouth against sin. The
problem with phrases like “holy @#$%” or “OMG” is that they help to harden our
heart towards the True and Living GOD who is HOLY and who calls us to be Holy
as He is HOLY.
Study Leviticus 24:10-16, 23; Psalm 2; Psalm 74;
Matthew 27:38-44; Luke 5:17-26; 1Timothy 1; Revelation 16:8-11, 17:1-6.
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