Many people think that the meeting with God will be an extremely joyful moment. Today, we are glad to talk about the goodness, grace and mercy of God, forgetting completely of His holiness. Meanwhile, God’s goodness is a holy goodness, and God’s mercy is a holy mercy. We cannot forget about it. Whoever forgets, will create God on the image and likeness of himself. The prophet Isaiah experiences – first of all – God’s holiness and his sinfulness on its background in meeting with God. Putting together God’s perfection with his imperfection, he sentences death on himself. Isaiah does not see a chance of life after meeting the sanctity of God. He is scared with his sinfulness. Only after cleaning his lips by the archangel – the prophet may continue a further conversation with God and undertakes to perform a specific task. Our meeting with God will be a meeting with the Light penetrating our whole life, from bith to death, showing all its lights and shadows. This light will penetrate our hearts, thoughts, desires and imagination. We will stand in the truth. None of us can hide anything. God will not condemn us. We – like Isaiah – will pass judgment on ourselves: Woe to me. I am lost.
Similar experience was shocking to Peter, when he saw a wonderful fishing. He fell to Jesus’ knees, asking: “Go away from me, Lord, because I’m a sinful man”. He met with the power and goodness of Jesus, and saw his sins immediately. We have to remember that before we see goodness, grace and mercy of God, we will experience His holiness and our sinfulness. This sanctity tells us to make efforts to avoid sin today, so not to make the meeting with God difficult for ourselves. God’s holiness calls us for continuous purification from what diminishes us, makes us miserable, embarrasses. God’s mercy is holy. It never condemn anyone. It reveals the truth. A sinner issues a just judgment on himself at the God’s Court. Just only one our sin is enough that we will not find a place in God in the face of God’s holiness. A Christian cannot forget that God is holy.