I Saw The Lord

Maybe it’s the general impact of what we are all experiencing right now…

Maybe it’s the particular frame of mind that I’m in, as we (as a church) wrestle with the pastoral implications of isolation…

Maybe it’s the way all of this is hitting me personally right now…the personal reflection, vulnerability before the Lord and the acute sense of His presence in our home…

But this morning, one of the scheduled readings in my Bible reading plan “happened” to have me in Isaiah 6.

And I only got as far as the first sentence.

“It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord.”

Four words that change everything.

I saw the Lord.

Isaiah didn’t say he saw a vision of the Lord.

He didn’t say he saw the Lord in a dream.

He saw the Lord.

It was a life-altering encounter with the God of all creation, the magnitude of which cannot be overstated.

What Isaiah saw had to have been filtered in some way because we know that no human can see God and live.

But, however God provided the young prophet this experience, I have to say that Isaiah’s testimony resonates with something…a hunger deep inside of me.

I am guessing that it is inside of you, too.

I long to see Him.

That’s the longing that draws me to Jesus…who is the “radiance of God’s glory and the exact imprint of His nature” (Hebrews 1:3 ESV).

That’s what causes me to be in the Word every day and to fellowship with this amazing, holy, majestic God in prayer and worship through the Spirit…who makes God so real to me that, while my earthly eyes may not be able comprehend His form, my spiritual eyes see Him.

So, like Isaiah, I am able to say, “I saw the Lord!”

And I will never be the same!