Whole and Holy

 

Exodus 3:⁵ Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground."

Holy:

Primary (pre-Christian) meaning is not possible to determine, but probably it was "that must be preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated," and connected with O.E. hal (see health) and O.H.G. heil "health, happiness, good luck" (source of the German salutation heil).

.

I've been thinking about "Holiness"...being Holy...our Holy Lord. It's interesting that the root words for holy go back to the same root words for "health" and "wholeness". To be holy is, of course, to be consecrated, sacred and godly. But, perhaps a simple way to consider being holy is to be whole. When the Lord instructs us to be holy, as He is holy, I think He is telling us to come apart from the unhealthy and incomplete and to be whole and to be healthy in Him.

Perhaps when God told Moses to take the sandals off his feet it was so that those feet could be in direct contact with the holy ground...direct contact with our whole and complete and wonderful God, with nothing between.