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Can You Imagine?
“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.” Isaiah 6:5
It’s one thing for us to imagine standing before God’s throne; beholding His presence. Can you imagine what it was like for the prophet Isaiah when he was summoned? Seeing the glory of God? He was undone! But what of us? It’s one thing to want to look. The children of Israel were more than willing to let Moses climb that mountain. It’s another thing to look and then desire our hearts to be enlarged to embrace all that we can see and imagine once there. As Moses, do we desire to see Him? Do we appreciate fully the cleft of the Rock that God placed Moses in when He passed by? Do we find our solace there; our Rock and Fortress, Jesus?
While it is true that we see the majesty of God as if through a glass, and even then darkly (1 Cor. 13:12), don’t we want more; that is, as much as is possible for us in this old tent? If so, examine your heart and pray that it is enlarged. Ask God to reveal those stony pillars where we find sin flourishing in the high places so we can, through Him, break down those sacred altars.
Any hardened area of our heart brings contraction; lessening the area available for expansion in the fulness of Christ’s love and expression. Were we not told that God would take our hearts of stone and make them as flesh? Sin is a cancer. And a cancer will limit; if not destroy, the capacity of the heart and lungs. But with humility and contrition? Repentance? Tearing down those high places? It expands our worship and enlarges our hearts and lungs; thus allowing us to engage and enter into His presence with greater adoration, and when fully breathing in His Spirit, how much louder our shouts of praise!
May this be our challenge and prayer Today. Enlarge our hearts, oh Lord; and from the fountain of our hearts fill our thoughts of you that we might see you in all your glory and honor and majesty; however, darkly but now brightened by our obedience. Amen
