Holy? Or Holy As Yahweh Is Holy?

 

The primary Hebrew word for “holy” (qadosh) is quite intriguing. It would do us all well to spend a year studying its uses and patterns throughout Scripture. Simply explained, it is a person or thing that is consecrated, distinct and set apart.

But here’s the thing, one does not have to be like Yahweh to be holy, by mere definition. Anything that is not like "the rest" is holy. What is my point? I’d like to encourage those of us who have some innate desire to be a set apart people to be sure that we are found only pursuing being holy *as Yahweh is holy.* All other endeavors to simply be different are futile, really, aside from being like our wonderful Elohim.

There are many segregated assemblies, fellowships, religions and even cults. They operate uniquely unto themselves, enforce dress codes, specific hairstyles and all manner of things. I’m not even attempting to call this right or wrong. That’s not the point.

My point is this. Let us be fascinated with Father’s ways. Let us learn His ways, what is pleasing to Him and then pursue what it is that makes Him holy and set apart. This will overflow into every single crack and crevice of what we do and do not do. It will affect what we listen to and what we watch. It will overhaul our imaginations and thoughts. I would suggest that it will even affect how we dress... how we speak. It will touch every facet of our lives.

We, of course, see this best demonstrated by the Son Who perfectly revealed the result of perfectly walking one (echad) with the Father. We too are now called to do likewise and have the wonderful gift of looking back unto a Man that showed us how. How to what? How to be holy… as Yahweh is holy.