Perspective, Part 2
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” Isaiah 6:5
People often joke about what they’re going to say when they finally stand face-to-face with God. From the human standpoint, we think that we will meet God as peers or equals.
I had one rather foolish man tell me that when he finally faced God he was going to say, “See, I was right!.” Yes, I did step back a bit just in case God sent Holy Fire right then to consume the guy.
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31
Friends, when we stand before God, when we finally see him as he is, we won’t be saying much of anything. And what we do say might be summed up in one word–Woe.
The prophet Isaiah was allowed to see God in all of his holiness. The curtain that guarded God’s holy living room was drawn back, and when Isaiah saw it all he could do was confess. He confessed his own sins and the sins of his people.
That’s perspective, and one we desperately need today. Our collective arrogance–our exaltation of ourselves even above God–is unbridled. We run unchecked in the pursuit of our own pleasure, even at the expense of others.
But when we see God, when we see the white-hot purity of his holiness, we won’t be standing, we won’t be boasting and we won’t be negotiating.
In reality, God’s holiness is all there is. Everything else, even the things we spend so much time promoting and chasing after, will be consumed by God’s holiness. And but for the blood of Jesus that makes us holy, we would be consumed too.
Humble yourself before the mighty, holy God. Search his Word and pray for a vision of how pure and unblemished he really is. And when he graciously shows you how filthy you are compared to his holiness, fall on your knees and praise him for sending Jesus to make you holy too.
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