We Boast

There's been [more than] a few times in my life when I've felt ... very small. It usually followed a look-at-me moment, an instance of unspoken boastfulness. It was none other than God Himself who said "when pride comes, disgrace follows" (Proverbs 11:2). Those look-at-me moments should be rightly followed by woe-is-me moments! You may recall Isaiah experienced one of the most humbling times in his life as he "saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up" (Isaiah 6:1, ESV). What he witnessed was stunning - God's robe filling the temple, seraphim above the throne worshiping, a shaking of the temple's foundations, the unmistakable voice of the LORD, the smoke (V.1-4). Nonetheless, what was it that caused Isaiah to say in Verse 5 ... "woe is me?" It is that which God's children today fail to recognize ... the Holiness of Almighty God. In that one moment, Isaiah realized his lowliness, his unworthiness, his sinful state. That is what The Presence of The Holy does: it makes clear who I am in light of who He is! While we should tremble in reverent awe at The Presence, we must never be scared-away; rather, we should be drawn to approach Him because of what Jesus has done. For those who believe, we can with confidently and boldly approach clothed in the Righteousness of Christ, and along with the psalmist say, "in God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to Your Name forever." In Jesus, we boast!