God told Moses to make a dwelling place for Him to dwell
among His people. God’s absolute Holiness is so perfect and good that anything
else in this world defiles Him. “Holiness” is a very difficult concept to
understand. Imagine a perfect sphere. It’s perfect, it rolls amazingly smooth.
If not for gravitational forces on this earth, the bumps and hills. It could
roll forever.
That’s what God, in His infinite perfection is. He is, always was, and
always will be perfection. God is “good.” He is the epitome of the meaning of the word and He is
“just,” He always does the right thing and always has the right thing on His
heart and in His mind. Because He is good, right and creates things to last. He
won’t ever create temporary
things. He builds things right and they continue to last. But then, sin entered
the world. And I think sin needs to be defined as well. Sin is, “missing the
mark.” It’s hitting anything other then God’s mark. God being the absolute
essence of all existence is the mark. If you think about it sin doesn’t live
long , it’s a temporary existence. It creates contaminates and creates
self-destruction. It shortens the life of everything that lives. Lets take for
example, lying. Lets say you have a living thriving relationship. That
relationship is living, so to speak. What happens if you introduce lying into
that relationship. The person that you trust is misleading you. You can no
longer trust that person who has become your friend. The living entity ,that
was your relationship, slows and over time ceases, it no longer lives. You know
how a good relationship is infectious? It encourages more good. That’s how you
know something has God’s roots, it creates and continues to create.
Holiness is the
ultimate of who God is. Genesis 3:17 says that if adam and eve ate that fruit
they will die. Not that they will immediately die, just that they weren’t ready
for the knowledge of good and evil. It’s kinda like a child of 2 isn’t ready to
know how to weld his daddy’s gun. Maybe God was waiting for a time down the
road when humanity would be wise enough to handle that dangerous knowledge of
good and evil. Either way, that one choice brought death (Genesis 6:1-6).
Luckily, we have an eternal
Father who loves the heck out of us! He Himself sent His only Son (who is God,
the trinity is a strange study) to die for us. He taught us how to live, how to
trust, and how to love in ways I can’t do by my own power. What we need to do
is make the reverse decision in life. We need to realize the truth. We do not
have the strength to do it or to be holy and clean by ourselves. He is Holy, He
is strong, we can be holy enough to get ourselves to heaven.
There are things in this life
that will snare us. We get the
easy part, He pleads to us to follow Him. He wants us to take His good gift and
follow His ways. It’s amazing that this Holy God would love us so much to
become a man and pay the debt that we don’t have the ability to pay.
-Matthew Kelly
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