January 30-He is Holy Holy Holy

It’s Tuesday! Tuesday already and I’m still trying to get things done I should have finished last week. How about you? And how are you doing in your walk with Jesús? Are there times when you feel like you haven’t really talked with him in a while? Where is it you feel closest with him? When you are in nature? In a garden? Some folks feel closest to the Lord when the are reading His Word or engaged in meditation. Still others when they are talking with fellow believers. 


None the less, we know that the Prophet Isiah felt the closest to God in the year the King Uzziah died. Uzziah was a great king and he knew it. According to II Chronicles 26, he became king of Judah at 16 and brought about great agriculture, a strong military and built great cities but pride consumed him. When he tried to take over at the temple the job of the priests, it was time for him to repent, yet he could not. FYI, in a battle of like this, God will win, every time and after 56 years as a prosperous king, Uzziah died a pretty ugly death. 

“It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!””

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭6:1-3‬ ‭NLT‬‬

There’s a couple of lessons for us here. One. God is on His Throne and we can never ever forget that. No man or woman or anything else will ever take His place. Two. Out of the six wings the seraphims have, they only do work with two. The other four they used for adoration of the King of Kings. We do often get that completely backwards, don’t we? 

So, maybe just maybe if God seems far away at times, we need to think about those two things. Is God on the throne and nothing else and what is the ratio of adoration and work? Are we spending so much time working, we simply don’t have enough time to really see the Lord high and lifted up? 

Jehovah God Almighty we pray today that we see you high on the throne with your robe filling the room and the seraphims surrounding you and that we like they adore you for you are holy, holy, holy Lord God. Bless us this day Jesús. Amen and amen. 

Love you dear one,

Pam


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