Nigeria, May 10 -- The more I know God, the more I recognise how little I know Him. The more I know Him, the less I know Him.<

Have you met Mr. Adewale? Yes. Do you know his wife? No. I tell you, you need to meet his wife. Why? She is very, very, very... holy.

That is an improbable conversation. Holiness is an attribute we do not expect in a woman or a man. We can say she is very beautiful, but not that she is very holy. We can say he is very handsome, but not that he is very holy. And yet, out of all of God's many attributes, the one used to describe Him again and again in the Bible is His holiness.

The holiness of God is referred to more than 600 times in the King James Bible. God's holiness is the primary determinant of everything H...