From the First Lesson for this day, Ezekiel 44:4-8
Isaiah 6 is one of my favorite passages. It is an awe-inspiring scene of the glory of God. I have been known to spend long seasons of meditation just musing on that glorious time Isaiah spent in the Holy of Holies with God. In many ways, I wish I had seen what Isaiah saw. It makes me long for that time when I fall asleep in Christ to view the Heavenly glory for myself.
There is a downside of God's glory. It also reveals that which is unholy: "the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD... mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. And thou shalt say to the rebellious... let it suffice you of all your abominations, in that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves."
In our house, the same light that makes it safe to walk in the kitchen is the same light that shows that the dishes are undone or the clothes remain unfolded.
So it is with God's glory - the same Light that reveals the One True God is the same light that reveals the deceit, violence, and sin of mankind.
O God, let Thy Light so shine in my life that others may see Thy glory and that I may see my sins; draw me into the Presence of He Who is Light of the world. Amen.
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