In the year 2008, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty, the whole earth is full of his glory."
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
"Woe to me!" I cried! For I am a woman who has held too low a view of God, among a people who have done the same, foolishly imagining that we could create God in our image and cast him aside as irrelevant. But my eyes have seen the KING, the LORD ALMIGHTY.
This morning as I meditated on Isaiah 6, I wondered what my response would be if I saw the vision that Isaiah saw. I closed my eyes, really trying to picture the scene Isaiah describes, trying to grasp the glory that is God. As I did that, I realized that God's glory is truly overwhelming! People today know so much, have so much, and do so much that we lose sight of the reality that our lives are but a vapor. But God is eternal. It is GOD who controls life and death and the course of the world. A glimpse of God's glory brings the appropriate humility to the prideful human heart.
As I go through the day today, I am going to pray that my response to God would be like that of Isaiah's: humble repentance, acceptance of God's forgiveness, and then a willingness to go wherever God might send me.
2 comments:
I had a similar response after reading the passage. When I think about the power of God and His glory, I always think about the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the people who opened the Ark literally melted away like wax in the presence of God's glory.
I am amazed that this is the same God who not only wants a relationship with me, but has made me his treasured son.
I love you,
Chip
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