Surprising, isn’t it? None of this is what a person shrouded in shame expects of holiness. But since holiness is so not-human, it always has an element of the unexpected. You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don’t limit God’s character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.
