In her new book, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him, Jackie Hill Perry-author, poet, Bible teacher, and artist-invites readers to consider what the reality of God’s holiness means for our daily lives.ī&H Books. But there aren’t many books about what holiness means for you, for me, and for our everyday lives we sometimes halfheartedly entrust to a God we cannot see. Many scholars and writers have published books and commentaries about God’s holiness, focusing on his character and the set-apartness of his nature. Read Revelation and you’ll see holiness is vivid-and yet it’s confusing for most Christians. Today? I hope it is closer to an awe-invoking love and thankfulness for his character. When I was a Bible-college student, holiness was grand and mysterious. During my childhood, holiness meant unreachable or distant. But if you asked me about his holiness, I’m not sure what I would have said. Until recently in my adult life, if you asked whether I thought of God as beautiful, true, and good, I would probably tell you yes. Tozer wrote one of his most famous phrases, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us,” I doubt he knew how often Christians around the world would use and repeat it.
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