Holiness

Last night I attended a class taught by the Honorable Judge Parker who is a member at Glenwood. He is teaching a 3 week series on the holiness of God. These are a few of my thoughts after class. When we, as Christans, become mature enough in our faith to gain any kind of understanding about the holiness of God...what happens next? In light of God's complete "opositeness" from sin and evil, don't we then despise and detest our own sin more as we strive to be holy? In light of God's complete "separatness" from human nature, don't we then come to realize that God is in total control and we have no control over God? In light of God's holiness, don't we then become overwhelmingly grateful for the cross and the grace offered there? If God is "holy, holy, holy" and we are dead in our sin...praise can be our only response when we acknowledge the vast chasm that was spanned in order for us to draw near to Him.