The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
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Seeing the Lord"
saw the L.ord.-Isa 6.I

! saw the Lord--Isa. 6:I
Some 5000 years ago there stood
a young man in the sacred Temple
at Jerusalem.
As he stands thus in deep medita-
ton, suddenly the scene is changed.
The massive walls of the Temple fade
from view, the worshippers disappear
from sight and a dazzling light from
the upper world discloses heaven
" scene. A mighty throne comes
forth from the mystic confines of the
unknown upon which Jehovah sits
high and lifted up. His trailing robes
of fadeless glory, fold upon fold.
spread like liquid gold upon the plat
form of his power as the six-winged
angels whisper the story of his holt
ness, his majesty and his power. The
foundations Of the Temple tremble
ike leaves before a driving wind and
10, rising mist like ascending smoke
ILLS the heavenly vacuum. Isaiah
stood as if riveted to the celestial
ether as he felt the binding shock
of personal contact with one whom
ne was utterly unfit to meet and
from his stammering, hesitating lips
falls the plaintive cry: "Woe is me
for ! am undone. for mine eyes have
seen the King, the Lord of hosts"
He had seen the Lord.
What IL Is
After the lapse of three thousand
years we cannot read this vision with
out feeling the sublimity, the wonder
and the glory of this amazing scene.
We turn back the pages of the past
and get glimpse of Jehovah. wrap
ped in divine glory, high and lifted
up above all principalities and pow
ers. to station all his own. Isaiah
had been meditating upon the un-
fortunate condition of his nation
its lost king, its vacant throne and
the threatening invasion of a foreign
Zoe. but in his mighty vision he be-
holds an everlasting throne which is
never vacant. a king divine who
never dies, surrounded by minister
ing spirits of fire serving Him in
worship and song.
1t is not with the eyes of flesh that
men are permitted to see God. Mar
is finite, God is Infinite and so can
be seen only by that part of man
which is Infinite like God. Only the
eyes of the soul are capable of gaz-
ing upon the dazzling glory of Je.
hovah who is high and lifted up. II
Is only through Spiritual Expert
ences, when we become so conscious
of his presence that we can visualize
his glory and hear his voice, when we
can reach out our faltering hands
Of faith and touch the garment of his
power that we can really and truly
testify that we have seen the Lord
What Ii Does
1t clarifies our conception concern
ng things material and things spirit
ual. In this mighty vision convic-
ing contrast is drawn between the
"erishing qualities and characterize
cts of Uzziah and his kingdom and
the immutable and imperishable at
tributes of Jehovah whose kingdom
shall have no end. He could readily
recognize Gods unchallenged supre-
macy in Righteousness above the low
| and groveling standards of men, and
Jehovah's occupancy of far higher
hrone than any upon which Uzziah.
in all his glory had ever sat. He
saw and realized that Jehovah wa.
above all things earthly.
When we see the Lord we likewise
see our own condition. Isaiah saw
and stood in the presence of a God
superlatively glorious and perfect.
He saw the unmistakable elevation
of his divine nature. the dazzling
power of his glory. He stood in the
personal presence Of the Eternal who
apprehended and overwhelmed the
sense of his unworthines., as he
cried; "Woe is me, for am undone,
because | am man of unclean lips
for mine eyes have seen the King. the
Lord of hosts" Only when we behold
the King in His beauty do we fully
realize our weakness and recognize
cur dependence upon the God of all
love and all power.