By Dr. Kluane Spake

Holiness is the path we've trod

To find ourselves revealed in God ~

Radically changed

Lives rearranged

No one to blame

Never the same.

Abraham looked for the city built by God. He journeyed hundreds of miles until he finally arrived at the place where the Lord wanted Him to live. "This is absolutely ridiculous," Abraham must have said as he looked around and saw nothing special about this new desert place. You know, another wilderness wasn't exactly what Abraham expected... but the purpose of his journey, the reason he had to leave his land and people, was to know the Holy God.

Have you ever considered that the Lord also prepared a wilderness place for you? Try doing a word study on "a place" in the Old Testament. When you search for that place, you'll find that sometimes the Promised Land is a desert too! Joshua crossed over and found out the Promised Land was a place of war. The greatest battles happened after crossing the Jordan. God's place is always one of change and holiness.

Where are you going? The answer is to obtain His holy image and likeness. This concept of holiness -- it has always been there -- a concept so huge you miss it while looking for the "secret and mysterious things." You say, "God I want more of you," yet often you mean any other way except conforming to His character. Truth is, He wants all of you -- wholly holy.

Proverbs 9:10 says, "... the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." This penetrating awareness marks the holy beginning of finding true purpose and direction. Holiness: the quality of being unlike, distinct or unique from that which is common and ordinary, separated from the average, set apart from the common, and linked to Him in likeness. Holy means to be sanctified, and single-eyeyed (your eye fastened on Him alone). Sanctification sets you free to find true happiness - which is of course, one of the major reasons why we're traveling on this journey.

I have a friend, whose love of big words would have defined Holiness as, "A predetermined place that manifests an abstract quality which may be paraphrased thus: that vindication which is established within each believer as distinguished from his irreverent past." Whew... unless you understand how these words fit together that's not going to make much sense. Now we'll spend the rest of this book trying to say it another way.

Let's take a look at some of the 650 uses of the word holiness in the Bible. Not counting the usages of sanctified, set apart, etc. That would put the count into the thousands. Both the Hebrew (kadash) and Greek (hagaizao) are translated interchangeable as "sanctification" and "holy."

The Scripture says that God's throne is holy, and so is heaven. His tabernacle, the land of Israel, the city of Jerusalem, the mount of Zion, and the church all are holy. All through the day and night, creatures in heaven say that God is holy. Day and night, day and night-Holy, Holy, Holy. They don't get tired or bored from proclaiming this revelation. The worship in heaven continuously resounds God's holiness. What God owns He calls holy. His covenants and His people are holy. His power is holy, His mercy is holy, His wisdom is holy. Every bell and pot will be called holy. His prophets are holy. The tithe is holy. Jesus is holy. His name is holy, and Christian lives are holy. Even the Bible is called the Holy Bible.

Finding this Holy God releases us from the bondage of our uninteresting landscape of carnality, and enables us to live in quickened awareness of the Almighty.

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