In today’s relative world, absolute words offend. Yet in Scripture, absolute words fill its pages. For instance, terms like righteous, pure, true, right and holy are used hundreds of times to describe God.
His own words testify to his absolute nature. He is not kind of pure; he is pure. Nor does he mostly tell the truth; he tells the truth…always. He is just 100 percent of the time while he loves 100 percent of time. These attributes make him absolutely pure and perfect.
Psalm 145:17 reveals to us that “The LORD is righteous in all his ways…” Everything he does from speaking the universe into existence (Gen. 1); bringing about the flood (Gen. 6); sacrificing His only Son; to creating your life with all of its ups and downs is right. He did not make any mistakes, nor will He ever.
Moreover, his laws that he instructs us to obey are true and pure. When we obey them our hearts are filled
with joy, our minds are renewed, and peace reigns in our lives. (Psalm 19:8). His actions and words are not wrong, nor are they are not sometimes wrong, but they are always right and standard to which He uses to judge our lives.
This absoluteness sets Him apart from us. “Holy” is the word to convey the idea of being “set apart” and Psalm 89:35, Isaiah 43:15, and 1 Peter 1:15 all speak to God’s holiness. He is set apart from the moral imperfections and impurities of his creation. Being set apart and perfect, he can never be imperfect or impure. He is crystal clear on this point as He says that He is not man, but God, the Holy One. (Hosea 11:9)
Because God is perfect in all His ways, we have Someone that we can trust with every ounce of our being.
We can trust His promises because he has never broken one nor is he capable of breaking one; we know that he will never do the wrong thing because he is perfect; and know that his Word is always truthful, even when it is difficult to believe.
He will not abandon us or forsake, nor will he ever lie to us. As we come up against difficult circumstances in our life, we know that he will be there for us in our time of need. We also know that his judgments are equitable and there will come a day when everything that is wrong with the world will be made right.
Most importantly, because he is morally pure and perfect he is the only one who can solve man’s most basic problem: being separated from him. This is the key to understanding the Gospel.
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