When
Isaiah entered the temple, God gave him such an experience of His holiness that
the prostrate prophet cried out:
"Woe is me! For I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips."
(Isa. 6:5) "Scripture," says
John Calvin, "represents saints always impressed and disturbed on every
discovery of God." And how can it
be otherwise?
God
is holy. We are unholy. God is light.
We are darkness. He is righteous. We are sinners. When we who are what we are dare to approach
Him Who is what He is, there is a revealing, a purging, and resultant
confession. God disturbs us simply by
what He is. No experience of God can be
genuine, if it is not disturbing. And if
we know anything about Jesus, we can never again see a soft, kindly God who
covers everything with His mantle of forgiveness, but only a holy God who
demands a cross to deal with sin.
--
H.S. Vigeveno in Jesus the
Revolutionary
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