I Saw The Lord!

Isaiah saw Him sitting on His throne, high and lifted up, and the skirt of his robe filled the entire temple. Imagine what that looked like! There sat God in all His regal glory. He was high above where the people would be. His splendor was lifted up so that Isaiah could see all of it!

Had Isaiah not seen God before in the temple? Apparently not! The sad truth is we are so used to coming to church, so comfortable with our services that we do not even expect to see God on His throne when we get to church.

Isaiah was at a point in his life where he could not go on just serving God as a prophet just as he had for so long. He had spoken for God to the King on many occasions. His words had fallen on dull ears. Now Isaiah needed to see God himself, and see Him he did. The robe of God’s glory spread out across the temple until it filled every place, from top to bottom, from front to back, from side to side. It was the most incredible sight Isaiah had ever seen.

I am where Isaiah was. I am desperate to see God in His sanctuary. Oh my Lord, spread out Your glory over this sanctuary, fill it from the top to the bottom, from the front to the back, from this side to the that side.

There in the sanctuary Isaiah saw something else. In verse 2 of our text, it says, “Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.”

What were these seraphim doing? Verse 3 says: “And one cried to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.’”

Spiritual beings that serve God flew around the temple sanctuary calling out to one another. Whether they are seraphim or angels, my prayer is that they will come here to this sanctuary and call out those beautiful and powerful words once again: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”

Sometimes we act as though we are afraid of God, afraid that if He came right here in this sanctuary and sat upon His throne that weird stuff might happen. What God does is never weird. It would be wonderful should a band of angels come here and begin to lead us everyone to sing with joy, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”

As the seraphim sang their song of glory, verse 4 says that “the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

Maybe this is our problem. We are afraid that if God comes in such glory, He might shake up some things that we don’t won’t shaken. Maybe you don’t need anything in your life shaken up, but I sure do. There are all kinds of circumstances in the lives of the members of my extended family that need to be shaken up. I’ve tried for years to fix some of them, but I just can not fix them. I can’t even fix myself let along anyone else. Shake it up, God shake it up!

The door post is the post that holds the door hinges. When that post is shaken, the door will open. Do you need any open doors in your life? How about your family? Do any of them need an open door? A door can let out and let in. There are some things in my family that need to be let out, kicked out, put out. Then there are some things that need to be let in, drawn in, invited in.