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The reason we empathize with the likes of Uzzah and eventually find the confidence to accuse God of injustice whenever His gavel falls too hard for our liking is because we have a ridiculously low view of sin and an equally mediocre grasp of the holiness of God.

Made by our own hands, idols image us in their godlessness, and this is one reason we follow them. Because with all worship, there is a sacrifice, of course, but with idols, the demands that are made don’t take an incarnation, death, or resurrection for us to give it. There are no miracles involved in our obedience to an unholy god because what they require of us, we need no help to yield.

When we read the sentence, “God is love” disconnected from a fundamental understanding that God is “Holy, Holy, Holy”, we interpret the text with our experiences as the commentary.

Hear this: God’s words and works can be trusted because it is impossible for God to sin against you. If He could, He wouldn’t be God.

At the point when we begin to think of God as being anything other than holy is the moment we are imagining a completely different god altogether.

Holiness makes honesty an obligation.