Attributes of God - God is Holy

The holiness of God is quite likely one of the most difficult attributes for us as humans to come to grips with.  To say that someone or something is holy is to say that he, she or it is supremely good, exalted or worthy of complete devotion.  Anyone that is holy is, by definition perfect in goodness and righteousness.  This definition does not fit any person, object or idea that we as humans can interact with in any non-spiritual manner.

Lying beyond the difficulty of simply comprehending what holiness means is the fact that we are incapable of giving our complete devotion to anything.  If we could, we would be unable to maintain our existence.  In this life, we will never truly understand the holiness of God, but in the next we will experience it personally.