Pursuit Of Holiness Analysis

In the beginning of the Pursuit of Holiness, Bridges starts the book off with the principle that everyone is required to live a holy life before the sight of God. We are all to live a holy life but one may ask what does it mean to be holy? Defining the word holy one may describe it as to live a life that is morally faultless. "When the true term of holy is to be separated from sin and, therefore, consecrated to God." As we attempt to live a holy life why do we so often fail at exemplifying the essence of a holy life? Bridges explains that the majority of failure relies on three problem areas in our lives. He explains that the first is our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. Christians are more perplexed about overcoming their own sins than understanding that their sin is causing grief on the heart of God. "Secondly, our problem is the lack of comprehension of, "living by faith" (Galatians 2:20)." We like to think that we are not held responsible for our effectiveness in our pursuit of a holy character. Lastly, our third problem is the lack that we do not take some sins as sincerely serious as others. To often we categorize sins in nomenclatures of those that we do not think are as harmful as others. In reality if we are willing to compromise some sins as mere fetishes we are in fact not living a holy life because God forbids all sins.
God is described as possessing the qualities of omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, however, without perfect holiness we could no longer call such a being as God. God's perfect holiness permeates all of his other attributes such as His power, mercy, wisdom, are all holy and this is why His holiness deserves our praise. In God's complete holiness He loathes sin and this is why when we as his creation sins we are participating in that of something God