Yahweh Mekoddishkem—Yahwehwho sanctifies, sets us apart, or declares us to be holy. This name declares a spiritual fact: those who bet their lives upon His name have been set apart from everything and everyone as belonging exclusively to God. They have become His personal possession. This is what it means to be made holy. To be holy does not mean to be without sin, or to behave in a certain prescribed way, it means to be set apart from all else for a special purpose—God’s purpose.
