In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord… —Isaiah
6:1
“My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my
character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to
me. Before I can say, “I saw the Lord,” there must be something in my character
that conforms to the likeness of God. Until I am born again and really begin to
see the kingdom of God, I only see from the perspective of my own biases. What
I need is God’s surgical procedure— His use of external circumstances to bring
about internal purification. Your priorities must be God first, God second, and
God third, until your life is continually face to face with God and no one else
is taken into account whatsoever. Your prayer will then be, “In all the world
there is no one but You, dear God; there is no one but You.”” CHAMBERS
(Isaiah 6:1-3) “In
the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated
on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him
were seraphim, 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.” These
verses are some of those that bring a fresh awareness to me of God’s magnificence ..
His holiness every time I read them. It reminds me that the God
that I serve is more than a notion .. more than a thought .. He is the creator
of all things … That is the God who loves me, who saved me, and whom I serve
with every fabric of my being. I am
humbled .. and thankful …
How easy it is to forget who God is … we treat Him and His
Word so lightly. How do you see
God? Enough to stop doing things your
own way and turn to Him. Yesterday, after
attending church, I described three people to my grandson … (A.) A person who has received eternal
life through Jesus because they have accepted Him as Lord in their life (the
Bible says you can only say that, believing that by the Holy Spirit), and
believe in their heart that Jesus died for their sins and God raised Jesus from
the dead. (B.) A person that knows
about Jesus and about God, living on their own but would like to be born again.
(C.) A person that really doesn’t
care about God and just wants to live their own life. I told him that you are one of those three
people. You have to choose. There is not a “D”, all of the above. I asked, “Which one are you?” He said “I am a ‘B’”. I asked him if he wanted to be A, and he said
yes. We talked a little more and then we
prayed together .. he is now a child of the King. Hallelujah!
What happened with our grandson is spiritual, supernatural. The same thing that, hopefully, has happened
to you. But our spiritual edge can become
dull over time. The same God that Isaiah
referred to loves you and will sometimes allow circumstances into your life
that He wants to use to draw you closer to Him.
I was checking out of Walmart the other day and the clerk, a man, was
complaining about the culture to everyone who went through the line. When we got to him, and he started, I said “You
know, there is trouble all around us … the answer is to look up … God is still
on His throne … He is still sovereign… He is still in control.” That changed the course of his conversation
as he acknowledged that what I said was true ..well, at least for the moment … but my point
was and is .. when we face trouble .. when we don’t know what to do next, look
up … and we’ll see that our Father in heaven is looking down. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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