Our idea of holiness usually has to do with righteousness and goodness. We think that good people are particularly righteous and that God is better than they are; he’s higher up the scale. But holiness is much more than that. It involves the glory and majesty of God. It involves his will—that is, the force of his personality, which is sovereign and omnipotent. It also involves the idea of wrath. Wrath is closely associated with holiness because the wrath of God is a characteristic that goes