[Difference Makers ls] Amazed by the Lord Sample

Amazed by God

Isaiah is called to be a difference maker. He sees a vision. He says, “I saw the Lord.” He sees Him high and lifted up, filling the temple, with seraphim calling Him holy, holy, holy.

Holiness is a huge, huge thing, but the people of Israel thought God could fit inside the Ark of the Covenant. They traveled through the wilderness with the Ark. They could put it—and God—in a tent. Yet here Isaiah says that God is so big that the train of His robe fills the temple. God defies our expectations. 

In his book Miracles, British author C. S. Lewis put it like this:

It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. ‘Look out!’ we cry, ‘it’s alive’. And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back—I would have done so myself if I could—and proceed no further with Christianity. An ‘impersonal God’—well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads—better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap –best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband—that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion (“Man’s search for God”!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us!

God is real. He is seated upon a throne, the train of His robe filling the temple, smoke all around him, angelic beings flying around. God is holy, and Isaiah sees Him. 

We all have this little box that we place God in. What happens when we see God for who God is, not who we want Him to be?

Difference makers are amazed by the Lord. Seeing God changed Isaiah’s life. His mission became telling people about the greatness of God. He saw God anew, and the way he saw anew changed everything else he saw.

Am I amazed by God, or have I put Him in a box? Do I see God as He really is?