Leviticus 11:44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Looking into holy became a chore because rarely does the word holy stand alone. It is most often described as an attribute of a person, place or thing. The reason for that is because of two distinct qualities which need an object to focus upon. Sanctify, to separate and defile which means to contaminate.

If I were to paraphrase God is Holy it would be to declare God stands alone. God is separate from all His creation in this one character trait, He has never been defiled nor can He ever be defiled.

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Anything that is a treat to defile God is consumed before it can touch Him. That makes it impossible for anything or anyone who is defiled to even approach God. Thus He stand alone as the only undefiled One.

Consider for a moment that the first personality trait of God is love and that God created everything in pursuit of love. Love needs an object to pour itself out upon. His Holiness will not allow anything that has sin to approach Him. This is a perplexing conundrum that lies in the heart of every man, woman, and child on earth.

How can you have a relationship with a God you cannot approach without being destroyed?

God knows that and His answer to that conundrum is His third personality trait.

Sin, defilement, must be dealt with before we can approach God. Guilt must be alieved. A right standing before God must be established.

God’s answer is that God is just.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Yesterday God identified Himself to Moses as the great I AM. Then with this verse Jesus declares I AM come, and from our perspective I AM came down to us here on earth.

We do not often think of the sacrifice that God made in giving up His position on His eternal throne just to take on this human form.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For this one reason I list love as the first personality trait of God.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

The motivation behind the act is love, agape love, pure love, unselfish love, who God is in personality and character; love.

God’s first act is creation. He created space and time in order to set into motion a world He loved and things that He loved, with the understanding that to receive love, you must first show love.

1 John 1:1-3 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Life was manifested because of this great love.