God's Holiness Terrifies me

If I stay in the realization of God's Holiness, my corruption and depravity in everything I do comes to light. To continue to realize God's Holiness seems to keep me in depression and in fear.

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Proverbs 9:10
The Fear of the Lord is beginning of Wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is Understanding.

What this means is that once you fear the Lord you start to become wise because then you know that the evil you do makes you subject to God's wrath making you want to obey him.

Next part means that after you gain that wisdom you then learn about what God is like. So for example you are scared of him but now you learn that Jesus is God who said basically said with his actions, I love you so much I died for you. So God redeemed you through his own sacrifice in order to see you as he sees Jesus.

Depression is a lie, Fear is good but as long as it doesn't stay, Since perfect Love casts out all fear.

I know Christ's sacrifice covers the sin but I know that nothing I can ever do can be good in light of God's Holiness. The more I look at the Holiness of God the more terrified I am and hate this sin in me.

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Hating your sin is good, also what you do is never enough but God works in you and that is good enough. The work he does in you starts and doesn't finish till he is done with you and you are perfect and never sin again.

Let me ask you this, have you repented of your sins?

God sees you as Jesus himself, once you repent of your sins and trust in him for he washes you clean in the blood of his son. Which means you can't get dirty again, however that doesn't mean you can just go sin more but means that he now sees you as he sees Jesus.

It makes me hate myself. How can I live or do anything in existence when there is a Holy God in my presence. He see's and knows everything I do and it's all disgusting to Him.

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You said you hate sin, however hating yourself is murder, you are basically murdering yourself in your heart. That is a sin...... You can live and know that his grace is what saves you not your works and not your attempt at trying to be good. Its all meaningless as God's grace is the only way.

Also think of this, he is disgusted with your sin so much he cleaned you so he can look at you with Love beyond measure. God loves you Period, You wouldn't die for someone you hate.

How can I ever speak again knowing I have unclean lips? I can't stand myself. I'm covered by the blood of Jesus and still sin against the Holy God.

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Jesus died for our sins, it wasn't our sins to date but sins of all of them. I am not saying still go sin some more since Jesus covered them..... I am saying that you are clean now and God Forgives you and Loves you. You still sin because you are not done yet. He is still working in you to stop sinning. Jesus said Go and sin no more, it is possible to stop but only by the power of God.

Thank you so much for responding, I'm going to read through that a few more times. I've repented of sins, but how can I have ever repented of all sins?

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Repent means to turn from your sins and to say sorry. So to repent of all sins in a prayer would be to say your repenting of your sins and saying sorry for them. Then letting God work in you to stop sinning hence turning from all sins. You can't do it alone.

I mean even my prayers to Him will be covered with sin. All my motives to even help others must have self-centered purposes.

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How do you mean you sin in your prayers? Try this see someone who needs help and go help them, even if you have nothing to gain and even if its a stranger. That way you can break the self-centeredness.

When God looks at you, He sees you with cross-colored glasses. Fear not.

wmc1982 said:

I've looked a bit into God's Holiness and examples like Job and Isaiah when they see God (if I'm correct) they cover their mouths with "unclean lips" and are "undone" and disgusted with themselves in the presence of God.

If I stay in the realization of God's Holiness, my corruption and depravity in everything I do comes to light. To continue to realize God's Holiness seems to keep me in depression and in fear.

I know Christ's sacrifice covers the sin but I know that nothing I can ever do can be good in light of God's Holiness. The more I look at the Holiness of God the more terrified I am and hate this sin in me.

It makes me hate myself. How can I live or do anything in existence when there is a Holy God in my presence. He see's and knows everything I do and it's all disgusting to Him.

If I continue to think/meditate on God's Holiness I stand in constant condemnation of myself.

How can I ever speak again knowing I have unclean lips? I can't stand myself. I'm covered by the blood of Jesus and still sin against the Holy God.

Edit: also, when the Great Judgement happens, I know I will have to stand there in front of this Holy God and every sin I ever committed will be laid out. I know joy will come after Christ takes my place for the judgement (or already has), but how terrifying that will be for it all to be laid out in plain view.

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We also need to remember God is love, Jesus died because we are sinful.

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Dear wmc1982. God`s Holiness is awe-inspiring, but it should not terrify us.
God is Love and God wants our love freely given and No tags attached.
In Matthew 22: 35-40: Jesus gives us good advice: " The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all
our minds. The second is like it: Love our neighbour as we love ourselves."
Then Jesus points out: " On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." God wants our love, freely given and truly meant.
In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " ask and ye shall receive," there we ask for Love and Joy, thank God and share it all with our neighbour: all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends. God will see our loving efforts, and God will approve and bless us. God also knows that we Love God, because we are following God`s Commandments to Love God with all our beings, and love our neighbour as we love ourselves.
The Bible tells us: " Repent and be Born Again," we give up our selfish wishes and wants, and start loving and caring for our neighbour, also a helping hand
some times. A Christian`s great weapon is our Love, with love we can overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour, we are doing our Heavenly Father`s Will, and prove to an imperfect world who we belong to, and are sign-posts as well. We might stumble and forget at times, but then we ask God to forgive us, and carry on loving and caring. Jesus our Saviour will help and guide us, JESUS IS THE WAY. I say this with love, wmc. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.

I'm wondering why this thread would be moved to deeper fellowship instead of Christian advise

wmc1982 said:

I've looked a bit into God's Holiness and examples like Job and Isaiah when they see God (if I'm correct) they cover their mouths with "unclean lips" and are "undone" and disgusted with themselves in the presence of God.

If I stay in the realization of God's Holiness, my corruption and depravity in everything I do comes to light. To continue to realize God's Holiness seems to keep me in depression and in fear.

I know Christ's sacrifice covers the sin but I know that nothing I can ever do can be good in light of God's Holiness. The more I look at the Holiness of God the more terrified I am and hate this sin in me.

It makes me hate myself. How can I live or do anything in existence when there is a Holy God in my presence. He see's and knows everything I do and it's all disgusting to Him.

If I continue to think/meditate on God's Holiness I stand in constant condemnation of myself.

How can I ever speak again knowing I have unclean lips? I can't stand myself. I'm covered by the blood of Jesus and still sin against the Holy God.

Edit: also, when the Great Judgement happens, I know I will have to stand there in front of this Holy God and every sin I ever committed will be laid out. I know joy will come after Christ takes my place for the judgement (or already has), but how terrifying that will be for it all to be laid out in plain view.

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God sees and loves you. There is nothing you can do or not do to make God love you any more or any less. Regarding the judgement listen to what Robert Capon has to say about it, for it is pure truth.

"And the unjust? Well, the unjust are all the forgiven sinners of the world who, stupidly, live by unfaith — who are going to insist on showing up at the resurrection with all their record books, as if it were an IRS audit. The unjust are the idiots who are going to try to talk Jesus into checking his bookkeeping against theirs.

And do you know what Jesus is going to say to them — what, for example, he will say to his host if he comes to the resurrection with such a request? I think he will say, “Just forget it, Arthur. I suppose we have those books around here somewhere, and if you’re really determined to stand in front of my great white throne and make an ass of yourself, I guess they can be opened (Rev. 20:12). Frankly, though, nobody up here pays any attention to them. What will happen will be that while you’re busy reading and weeping over everything in those books, I will go and open my other book (Rev. 20:12, again), the book of life — the book that has in it the names of everybody I ever drew to myself by dying and rising. And when I open that book, I’m going to read out to the whole universe every last word that’s written there. And you know what that’s going to be? It’s going to be just Arthur. Nothing else. None of your bad deeds, because I erased them all. And none of your good deeds, because I didn’t count them, I just enjoyed them. So what I’ll read out, Arthur, will be just Arthur! real loud. And my Father will smile and say, ‘Hey, Arthur! You’re just the way I pictured you!’ And the universe will giggle and say, ‘That’s some Arthur you’ve got there!’ But me, I’ll just wink at you and say, ‘Arthur, c’mon up here and plunk yourself down by my great white throne and let’s you and me have a good long practice laugh before this party gets so loud we can’t even hear how much fun we’re having."

We must put faith in Gods mercy. We must believe that if we admit to him that we are fallible then He will be merciful. God isn't a hard task master, He knows we are fallible. All we must do is try our hardest, never give up trying, and its good enough for Him because He does the rest. And its possible to overcome sin if we abide in Christ, that is the way. I have overcome things that i thought i would never be free from, although i don't dare boast because i fear i would stumble, but i am happy to be free from it. Praise the Lord.