Holiness

"Be Holy, for I am Holy" (1 Peter 1:16)

God's supreme desire is to be our God and for us to be His people.  What you worship will directly affect who you are.  God says He is Holy, totally separated from all other things.  There is nothing like God at all.  When asked by Moses, "Who are you?"  God could not point outside Himself, for no created thing is comparable to God.  So He said "I AM".  He is God, there is no one like Him at all, His attributes are infinite.

It wasn't until Jesus Christ walked among us and lived an entirely Holy life, did we have any understanding of His Holiness. He is the exact image of God in a man, the perfect representation of Him.  You ask what is God like?  Look to Jesus.   He commands us not to just love each other, He commands us to love as He has loved us.  He modeled Holiness for us perfectly.

Holiness is separation from sinfulness, worldliness, carnality, lust, greed, pride, hate and all things self.  It is not merely a separation from, it is a separation unto something better, God Himself.  True Holiness is an attribute given to God alone. "Holy, Holy Holy, is the Lord God almighty, heaven and earth are filled with his glory."  Holiness can only come from knowing Him who is Holy.  He is the cause, we are the affect. To know more of God is to become more conformed to His Holiness.  The knowledge of God is like medicine, you take it into your body, and it eventually gets into your bloodstream.

May we increase in our knowledge of the Holy one, that we may be conformed to that glorious image from which we have fallen.  ~Selah