But not Charles Colson. Not only was the White House hatchet man willing to cry in ; he was also willing to repent several years later of a woefully inadequate view of God. It was during a period of unusual spiritual dryness. If you are in one, take heart! More saints than you realize have had life-changing encounters with God right in the midst of the desert. A friend suggested to Colson that he watch a videocassette lecture series by R. Sproul on the holiness of God. Here's what Colson writes in his new book, Loving God pp. All I knew about Sproul was that he was a theologian, so I wasn't enthusiastic.
After all I reasoned, theology was for people who had time to study, locked in ivory towers far from the battlefield of human need. However, at my friend's urging I finally agreed to watch Sproul's series. By the end of the sixth lecture I was on my knees, deep in prayer, in awe of God's absolute holiness. It was a life-changing experience as I gained a completely new understanding of the holy God I believe in and worship. My spiritual drought ended, but this taste for the majesty of God only made me thirst for more of him. In Colson had seen enough of God and himself to know his desperate need of God, and had been driven "irresistibly" as he says into God's arms.
But then several years later something else wonderful happened. A theologian spoke on the holiness of God and Charles Colson says that he fell to his knees and "gained a completely new understanding of the holy God. Job Sees God Anew "There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil" Job 1: Job was a believer, a deeply devout and prayerful man.
Surely he knew God as he ought. Surely he had a "taste for the majesty of God. And in the midst of Job's darkness God spoke in his majesty to Job: Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified? Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor. Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you the victory. Who then is he that can stand before me? Who has given to me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee; therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. It can and it is.
If I saw no signs of it, I would be hard pressed to continue even though I know perseverance is the key to revival.
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Gordon wrote in his book, The Holy Spirit in Missions, pp. It was seven years before Carey baptized his first convert in India; it was seven years before Judson won his first disciple in Burma; Morrison toiled seven years before the first Chinaman was brought to Christ; Moffat declared that he waited seven years to see the first evident moving of the Holy Spirit upon the Bechuanas of Africa; Henry Richards wrought seven years on the Congo before the first convert was gained at Banza Manteka.
Perseverance, prayer and labor, is the key to revival. But so is expectation and hope. And God has given me signs of hope that the experience of Isaiah and Job and Charles Colson can happen here if we continue to go hard after the holy God. For example, one of our members wrote me a letter a week ago which said the ministry here has taken me soaring far past what I formerly perceived as mountaintops, to a grander, greater, bigger, more glorious picture of the God on high than I had ever imagined. My view of God becomes larger and larger and out of his omnipotent magnificence flows everything, all-sufficiency.
In the ten months I have been at Bethlehem there has been a wonderful revival in my heart and the flame burns brighter and more surely than it ever has. Revival happens when we see God majestic in holiness, and when we see ourselves disobedient dust. Brokenness, repentance, unspeakable joy of forgiveness, a "taste for the magnificence of God," a hunger for his holiness—to see it more and to live it more: And it comes from seeing God. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: And one called to another and said: Seven glimpses of God I see in these four verses, at least seven. God Is Alive First, he isalive. Uzziah is dead, but God lives on. God was the living God when this universe banged into existence. He was the living God when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God in when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead andTime magazine put it on the front cover.
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And he will be living ten trillion ages from now when all the puny potshots against his reality will have sunk into oblivion like BB's at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. In a brief years this planet will be populated by ten billion brand new people and all four billion of us alive today will have vanished off the earth like Uzziah. He never had a beginning and therefore depends on nothing for his existence. He always has been and always will be alive.
God Is Authoritative Second, he is authoritative. Heaven is not coming apart at the seams. God is never at wits' end with his heavenly realm. And he sits on a throne. All is at peace and he has control. The throne is his right to rule the world. We do not give God authority over our lives.
He has it whether we like it or not. What utter folly it is to act as though we had any rights at all to call God into question! We need to hear now and then blunt words like those of Virginia Stem Owens who said in last month's Reformed Journal, Let us get this one thing straight. God can do anything he damn well pleases, including damn well. And if it pleases him to damn, then it is done,ipso facto, well. God's activity is what it is.
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There isn't anything else. Without it there would be no being, including human beings presuming to judge the Creator of everything that is. Few things are more humbling, few things give us that sense of raw majesty, as the truth that God is utterly authoritative. After him, no appeal. God Is Omnipotent Third, God is omnipotent. The throne of his authority is not one among many. It is high and lifted up. No opposing authority can nullify the decrees of God.
What he purposes, he accomplishes. To be gripped by the omnipotence or sovereignty of God is either marvelous because he is for us or terrifying because he is against us. Indifference to his omnipotence simply means we haven't seen it for what it is. The sovereign authority of the living God is a refuge full of joy and power for those who keep his covenant. God Is Resplendent Fourth, God is resplendent. What would the meaning be if the train filled the aisles and covered the seats and the choir loft, woven all of one piece?
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That God's robe fills the entire heavenly temple means that he is a God of incomparable splendor. The fullness of God's splendor shows itself in a thousand ways. For one little example, the January Ranger Rick has an article on species of fish who live deep in the dark sea and have their own built-in lights—some have lamps hanging from their chins, some have luminescent noses, some have beacons under their eyes.
There are a thousand kinds of self-lighted fish who live deep in the ocean where none of us can see and marvel. They are spectacularly weird and beautiful. Why are they there? Why not just a dozen or so efficient streamlined models? Because God is lavish in splendor. His creative fullness spills over in excessive beauty. And if that's the way the world is, how much moreresplendent must be the Lord who thought it up and made it!
God Is Revered Fifth, God is revered. They never appear again in the Bible—at least not under the name seraphim. Given the grandeur of the scene and the power of the angelic hosts, we had best not picture chubby winged babies fluttering about the Lord's ears. According to verse 4, when one of them speaks, the foundations of the temple shake.
We would do better to think of the Blue Angels diving in formation before the presidential entourage and cracking the sound barrier just before his face. There are no puny or silly creatures in heaven. And the point is: Great and good as they are, untainted by human sin, they revere their Maker in great humility. An angel terrifies a man with his brilliance and power.
But angels themselves hide in holy fear and reverence from the splendor of God. How much more will we shudder and quake in his presence who cannot even endure the splendor of his angels. God Is Holy Sixth, God is holy. Well, the word "holy" is the little boat in which we reach the world's end in the ocean of language. The possibilities of language to carry the meaning of God eventually run out and spill over the edge of the world into a vast unknown. The reason I say this is that every effort to define the holiness of God ultimately winds up by saying: God is holy means God is God.
The root meaning of holy is probably to cut or separate. A holy thing is cut off from and separated from common we would say secular use.
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Earthly things and persons are holy as they are distinct from the world and devoted to God. So the Bible speaks of holy ground Exodus 3: Almost anything can become holy if it is separated from the common and devoted to God. But notice what happens when this definition is applied to God himself. From what can you separate God to make him holy? The very god-ness of God means that he is separate from all that is not God. There is an infinite qualitative difference between Creator and creature. God is one of a kind.
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In that sense he is utterly holy. But then you have said no more than that he is God. Or if the holiness of a man derives from being separated from the world and devoted to God, to whom is God devoted so as to derive his holiness? To no one but himself. It is blasphemy to say that there is a higher reality than God to which he must conform in order to be holy. God is the absolute reality beyond which is only more of God. When asked for his name in Exodus 3: He is not holy because he keeps the rules. He wrote the rules! God is not holy because he keeps the law.
The law is holy because it reveals God. Everything else is derivative. What then is his holiness? Listen to three texts. Note the parallel structure of Isaiah 5: His holiness is his utterly unique divine essence. It determines all that he is and does and is determined by no one. Amazon Global Store UK International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.
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