Uncomfortable (S1) - Day 20

Here we have another instance of the holiness of God showing up and people being frightened. Have you ever thought about holiness as being something that is scary or frightening? Why would it be? How can God be so holy, yet so frightening at the same time? 

Why would holiness be something that we should fear? Why would it be something that we found to be a little scary?

The word holiness means to be set apart. It means that it is something other. This is why the Sabbath was declared holy, it is something different, something other than a Monday. When we are declared holy, we are declared to be set apart, and we become something different. We look the same, but our motivations are different. We sound the same, but there is a different intention in our hearts than for other people. If we lean into this idea, then our lives are filled with so much abundance, so much work, so much calling, that we hardly have time for anything else in our lives. 

But this “set-asideness,” if we can call it that, means that we are gifted and called to a very particular thing that requires our love, our holiness, our attention in order to make it happen. We have been set aside, just like the Sabbath, to be something different, and something that the world needs.