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God’s holiness is what separates Him from all other beings, what makes Him separate and distinct from everything else.

God’s holiness is more than just His perfection or sinless purity; it is the essence of His “other-ness,” His transcendence.

It is amazing. It is stunning. I stand in awe.

God’s holiness embodies the mystery of His awesomeness and causes me to gaze in wonder at Him as I begin to comprehend just a little of His majesty.

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

The holiness of God is the most difficult of all God’s attributes to explain, partly because it is one of His essential attributes that is not shared, inherently, by any of us.

I know we are created in God’s image, and can share many of His attributes, to a much lesser extent, of course — love, mercy, faithfulness, etc. These are the gift of God to me and grow in me as fruit of His Holy Spirit.

  • Holiness is not something that I possess as an inherent part of my nature; I only become holy in relationship to the Messiah. It is an imputed holiness because of His great work.
  • Only in the Messiah do I “become the righteousness of God”
  • God’s holiness is what separates Him from all other beings, what makes Him separate and distinct from everything else.
  • God’s holiness is more than just His perfection or sinless purity; it is the essence of His “other-ness,” His transcendence.
    • It is amazing. It is stunning. I stand in awe.
  • God’s holiness embodies the mystery of His awesomeness and causes me to gaze in wonder at Him as I begin to comprehend just a little of His majesty.