Understanding the holiness of God is like trying to visualize the ocean when we have only seen a pond. Most of us today have no clue what it is. (For some of the views we hold see The Journey.) Even farther removed form our thinking is why it is important to us in the 21st century. Two very important authors have a different view from what we hold today. C. S. Lewis writes, “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.”[1] Jonathan Edwards of the 18th century Great Awakening records, “We drink in strange notions of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour and unpleasant thing; but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely. 
‘Tis the highest beauty and amiableness, vastly above all other beauties. ‘Tis a divine beauty, makes the soul heavenly and far purer than anything here on earth.” What did these two men know that we have forgotten?” (Miscellanies #1) Irresistible? Sweet and ravishingly lovely? The highest beauty of all? Few of us would consider holiness in these terms, yet two very distinguished Christian guides through whom God worked mightily see him in this light. This site is dedicated to rediscovering this concept of a Holy God. He is irresistible, sweet, ravishingly lovely, and beautiful beyond anything here on earth. I hope you will join me on this journey.
Question: How often have you pondered the holiness of God or heard messages about holiness?
[1] C. S. Lewis, The C. S. Lewis Index: a Comprehensive Guide to Lewis’s Writings and Ideas, Compiled by Janine Goffar (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1995), 285.
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