Is it being different? Is it being weird? Is it being religious?

It is having a different nature…it is not so much as who you are, Jesus was human as well but he is different, set apart. The disciples were also holy, so are David, Moses, Abraham, Peter, Paul and those people who believed and followed God. How are they Holy? They have a different nature. The Holy Spirit is within them, each time they set themselves apart they live the nature that was already renewed within them by the Spirit, the more they become “like God” in nature (not deity) more like Jesus.

As they are set apart, they grow “nearer” to God, yet this “nearness” is what makes them see the Divine transcendence of God. The ever eternal gap of the Creator to its creation and that is the “woe”. Yet this transcendent God was also personal, so involved and concerned that he humbled Himself and took on the form of a servant, a human like us; truly gracious, merciful; in fact so immanent that God was called Immanuel “God with us”, and that is Jesus. The reason why we can approach the transcendent, Holy God is through the redemptive, finished work of Jesus at the cross. And that is enough for “awe”.

“Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.” – Hebrews 12:14 NIV