We cannot appreciate the holiness of God by putting it to any comparisons that we know. It is simply beyond us as mere man, incomprehensible to our finite minds. Only through the Spirit of the Holy One Himself can we be given a glimpse of His holiness.
Psalm 145:17 says: "The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works." The holiness of God is directly related to His righteousness and completely separate from evil. In I Samuel 2:2 it says: "There is none holy as the Lord; for there is no one beside thee; neither is there any rock like our God." In Leviticus 11:45 and in I peter 1:16 it tells us that we shall be holy for God is holy.
In Isaiah 6, Isaiah had a vision of seeing the Lord sitting upon His throne with the seraphim crying to one another: "holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts." Isaiah suddenly realized his personal depravity and cried out "woe is me! for I am undone!...for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts." After Job saw the Lord with his spiritual eyes (Job 42:5) he states in verse 6: "I loathe and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."
When we see ourselves as God does, we know that we are not holy, and can never be holy as God is; yet He will never tell us to do something we are unable to do. When we receive Jesus Christ, we receive all that God is, and we know we can trust the Holy Spirit to enable us to be holy. We are put right with God, and Christ is our holiness.
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! Amen
by Reginal Heber
1. The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W.Tozer
2. The Holy Bible
3. The Attributes of God (online)
4. The heart of CC
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