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Isaiah 6:1-13 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. [2] Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. [3] And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. [4] And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. [5] Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. [6] Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: [7] And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. [8] Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. [9] And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. [10] Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. [11] Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, [12] And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. [13] But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Why do we fail to see God clearly?
We tend to "think" God is a certain way or is going to do something a certain way, and when He does it differently from our thinking, we learn His ways--we get to KNOW Him.
As in Naaman's case. He didn't think God would want him to
wash in a dirty river when there were perfectly good clean
rivers in which to wash. But when He did it God's way, he
was healed. He would not have gotten the desired result his
own way.
We think, many times, because we are a certain way, that God
must be that way too. We need to go to God's Word and see how
God really is, and not let our "thinking" get in the way. We
must KNOW!!
We think because our parents do certain ways, that those are God's ways. This "colors" our perception of God. We tend to "see" God through who or what we are around. If we are around people who are telling us God is a certain way and it doesn't line up with God's Word, then we have a wrong perception of God. We tend to "see" God through our experience.
If our experience tells us one thing and the Word tells us
something else, we need to always remember that God's Word
is the TRUTH!!
When we see God clearly, we will confess sin readily. When we see God clearly, we will change.
When we see God clearly, it will bring more of a committment
to Him.
When we see God, we experience His LOVE. |