Let’s drop it with the amorphous trite Sunday School answers and get into something useful.
What is holy?
Holy doesn’t mean what we think it means.
It does not mean obedient servant.
We like to use our vocabulary and ideas of holiness to communicate something that is perfect. But that is such a lowball, Sunday School answer of what holiness is.
Holiness is not mere perfection, or merely free from sin.
It also includes implemented reality. That is, when something is holy, it is a sustainable system. Holiness it it’s extreme form means the item or entity in question is not just being in some etheral, otherworldly state, but it is accomplishing something transformational in the loves of what it touches.
“Being holy” therefore means you are implementing what G-d MADE YOU TO DO. It means execution of the highest order, and bringing others into contact with the Holy One who is deeply loving, deeply transformational Father of Lights.
That which is holy executed in connection with the Source of All Who Is Holy.
This is a present my friend got from his parents. It is a YETI cooler. Now, for those of you that don’t know, YETI products keep their encased products cold or hot for an extended period of time.
YETI products execute their job quite well. They provide a sustainable ecosystem that is disproportionate to the materials used.
Okay, gang, are you getting the picture.
You were made not just to be set apart, but rather, in your TRANSFORMED set-apartedness, to do something that is life-giving and a contribution to your setting. You are a holy (sustainable) system, ready to implement.
Not some POOR, MISERABLE, WRETCHED, BASTARD, WORM SINNER IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY G-D that he somehow deigns to tolerate and has to clean you out and put a shot of bleach into you in order to tolerate you and get rid of the daily stench.
We are commanded to regularly come before the throne of grace BOLDLY, NOT TIMIDLY OR FEARFULLY in order to find grace and help in our time of need. And our need is to be transformed daily so we can implement what we were made to implement.
Dude, Imma say this again. Get into the freaking car and drive off into all G-d has for you. Implement. The pictures of holiness-as-implementation are all around you.
You are not a 30-year old cracked Igloo.
You are a spanking new YETI.
#justdoit