God's Holiness and Man's Blindness

able. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power and admire his wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.-A.

W. Tozer1 Occasion: ______ _ _ Simple Yet Profound One man described his observations of the concept of holiness like this: There is a simple yet profound word which occurs nine hundred times in the Bible. You see it first in Genesis, as we are told how God created heaven and earth. ¼u see it last in the closing chapter of Revelation where we are told about God’s creation of a new heaven and a nei.v earth. But except for a few grand old hymns of the faith, you do not see this word much today . . .

This word is “Holy.” We get our words “saint,” “sanctify,” and “sanctification” from the sarne root words. All these terms carry the idea of being “set apart. . . .” just as all the colors of the spectrum come together to form the pure white light which illuminates our world, so all the attributes of God come together into His holiness.