Gospel Journey

What is Holiness?

Each day we will also ask a question. If you haven't read the devotional for today, please do that first. Then come back here and tell us what you think.

Holiness is a word we don't use very often today. What exactly does it mean to be holy?

Consider I John 1:5. The apostle John uses the analogy of light and darkness to convey a point to us.

Absolutely no darkness. Part of being holy is that God is absolutely pure. All that is good flows from Him and every positive virtue is but a reflexion of His perfect character. God is holy because He is absolute righteousness. There is no sin or imperfection in Him.

God is Light. It doesn't say, "God is the lightest" or "God's the brightest light." No, it says God is light. You can't really use a superlative with God. You can't say, "God is the biggest" for nothing is big compared to God. You can't say, "God is the most loving" because "God is love" (1 John 4:8). God all together seperate from everything we see or compare Him to.

After all, as we looked last week, God is Creator, and everything we see is just creation.

posted by danny2 @ 12:19 PM