Rev.4:8 – And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say,

“HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, who was and who is and who is to come.”

There is nothing left to do, no other response that we can have; His greatness demands our worship. These strange beings, the seraphim, only know the greatness of God. They have been in His immediate presence since the day they were created. They have seen His glory displayed in His actions. They have witnessed His creative power, His sustaining power, His mercy, his justice, and to top in off they saw His grace on full display when God became a man. They may not fully understand redemption the way we do, nevertheless all they know is the magnificence of God. To them, nothing else matters and nothing else makes sense. All they can do is worship. Here is how Rufinus of Aquileia describes this amazing worship.

“Almighty” is applied to him on account of the dominion he has over the universe. But the Father governs the universe through the Son, as the apostle himself states: “For through him were all things created, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.” Again, writing to the Hebrews, he states, “Because through him he made the world and appointed him heir of all things.” By “appointed” we are to take him as meaning “generated.” But if the Father made the world through him, and if through him all things were created and he is the heir of all things, it must be through him that he wields his sway over the universe. Just as light is generated from light and truth from truth, so Almighty is generated from Almighty. So we read in John’s Apocalypse about the seraphim: “And they rested not day and night, saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of armies, who was, and who is, and is to come, the Almighty.’ ” He then who is to come is called Almighty. Who else is to come except Christ, the Son of God?”

Probably the most shocking and amazing thing to these strange creatures called seraphim was the fact that God became a man. His life and death was shocking to them, His resurrection and glorification was astounding, and now they see the Lord in His humanity and deity at the same time. All they can say is holy. Their worship is contagious affecting the elders and all other beings in heaven. That’s the way worship is, we see greatness and respond in worship. Everyone in our proximity is affected.