The Price Of Vision – Oswald Chambers
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Isaiah 6:1.
Our
soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.”
Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in
their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it
personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was,
died—I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or—I saw the Lord?
My
vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines
revelation. Before I can say “I saw also the Lord,” there must be something
corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see
the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the
surgical operation of external events and an internal purification.
It
must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily
with God and no one else is of any account whatever. “In all the world there is
none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.”
Keep
paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
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