Just One Look

Isaiah 6

A dead king – An empty throne.

Recently in our history we witnessed another ‘king’ of the east who died and another empty throne.  And how did we see those who had put their hope and trust in that man of strength? The display of hopelessness and discouragement revealed from whom they got their help. Whose death, what king, what champion or hero, what strength, what ability, what idol in our lives has died?  ‘In that year’ did we give up, lose heart, become discouraged or—did we SEE the King of Glory?  We who are rightly related to Jesus need not be discouraged.  He is our help and ‘the lifter up of my head.’  We can now let a greater King fill our heart and our vision.

When we see the ‘brightness of His Glory’, everything else pales, and just one encounter with Him can change our vision forever.  Like Isaiah and like Paul, we too must personally see the Lord ‘high and lifted up’, and our gaze be upon HIM.  It must be God FIRST, God SECOND, and God THIRD.  And as we focus our love, passion, and pursuit on that one ‘pearl of great price’, our vision will be changed, and we will ‘come into His presence with singing’---‘Be thou my vision O Lord of my heart, naught be all else to me save that thou art…heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all’. No empty throne here, but upon it sits One whose ‘train fills the temple ‘til His enemies become His footstool.’!

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, ‘just one look—is all it took’ for Isaiah to be changed.  We too want that one thing—the ‘Presence of Your Glory’.  Admittedly, we’ve been discouraged, but today we can decide to be encouraged.  Show us YOUR glory.  Just one encounter with You, and we can never be the same.  Hallelujah!

Maurine Sullivan