Why is God worthy to be praised?

Psalm 99:5 ESV

Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

When we see how good, mighty, and holy our God is, that should lead us to a joyous praise to Him. The footstool of God is the ark of the covenant. Hebrews viewed God as sitting on His throne between the cherubim. What hebrews are doing by worshiping at his footstool is surrendering and submitting themselves to Gods power, this is how we should respond to Gods holiness.

Psalm 48:1 ESV

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,

Psalm 71:22 ESV

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

This shows how we praise God through our worship of singing. Because of His holiness we praise God with song with our lips. The psalmist is seeking new way to praise the Lord through vocal and instrument. Just as we should be finding all the ways we can give praise to our God.

Revelation 4:8 ESV

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Isaiah 6:3 ESV

And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

The Hebrew word for Holy here also means commanding respect and awesome. Our God is a holy God and that holiness commands our respect and we should be in awe at how awesome our God is.

Leviticus 19:2 ESV

“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Hebrews 12:10 ESV

For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

Discipline is the purpose of pain in our lives (Romans 5:3-5). The value of life’s struggles and pains is what it makes us. Our God molds us into holiness by how he disciplines us and that is a treasure we should not take for granted. We must think less of the hard things in life and more on the loving purpose behind these hard things that God puts in our life. We will find peace and joy in the midst of the harships if we think this way. We are being refined by God, molded into who we are meant to be in Him. A loving father will make sure his child learns lessons he needs to learn. And the loving child will see one day that the fathers single purpose in disciplining the child is his good. Some fathers might discipline their sons out of their own pleasure and in injustice but our Loving God makes no mistakes and is just in His discipline, not for His pleasure but for our good (Romans 8:28). I have gone through many hardships in my life, I had to live in Hawaii, which is a very secular place and a bad atmosphere for a Christian. I had no idea why God let me go through the things I went through in Hawaii, but thats only because of the immaturity of my faith. Even though I stumbled at times in my faith at Hawaii, The Lord grew me in ways I could have never imagined and opened my eyes truly to my need for Him. I am grateful for God building me through discipline in Him. I learned a great fact while at hawaii, no matter how much success you have in life, if you do not begin to be like God in purity, then you missed the purpose of your life.