It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man – a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

This captures well the paradox of my own desires. Like Sproul, I desire to know of God’s holiness precisely because I am not holy myself. I pray for humility as I progress in my understanding of God’s holiness, and as I strive for obedience in becoming holy as God is holy.