Day 36: God is with You

In Isaiah 6:1, Isaiah says, “In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.” The train of a robe communicates honor. God’s train filled the temple! Can you imagine that? God is so big, just the hem of his robe fills the temple!

That same mystery is found in Isaiah’s encounter with God. Clearly, it leaves him completely undone. He’s with us when we desire His presence; He’s with us when we’d prefer for Him not to know what we’re up to; He’s with us when we feel that we are completely alone; He’s with us when we’re rejecting His overtures; and He’s with us when we face evil and hardship and suffering and even a new virus that has everyone stumped as to treatment, much less a cure. Holy, sovereign, great, God—is with you.

God has power to help and to overthrow.

2 Chronicles 25:8 NIV

And so, it makes me think that perhaps it is not asking too much to expect us to wait and to prepare for the coming of the Lord. That we dig deep and consider our ways; clean up our side of the street. Reconsider our choices. This is the purpose of Advent and it feels like an act of worship to do these things in light of God’s lovingkindness.