supersize it
January 23, 2009
Knowing about God is fascinating. Knowing God personally is life-changing.
READ: Isaiah 6:1-10
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. —Isaiah 6:1
After you placed your food order at a popular fast food restaurant, the cashiers used to ask that famous question: “Would you like to supersize that?” In essence, they were asking the customers if they wanted more of what they were already getting.
In a similar way, when we come into God’s presence, I believe He asks us: “Would you like to enlarge your understanding of Me today?”
Isaiah had one such experience with God. Through a painful event in his life, Isaiah saw the Lord “high and lifted up” (Isa. 6:1). Through this encounter, God supersized Isaiah’s understanding of His holiness. He saw God’s complete moral excellence that unifies His attributes.
God also enlarged Isaiah’s realization of his own sin (v.5). This led to an expansion of his understanding of God’s complete forgiveness and cleansing (vv.6-7). Only when Isaiah understood the depth of his sin could he appreciate and accept forgiveness and cleansing from God. Finally, his encounter with God led to Isaiah’s declaration of availability and commitment to reach out to others and to help them increase their understanding of God (vv.8-9).
Let’s ask God to supersize our understanding of His greatness today. — Marvin Williams
Source: Our Daily Bread
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What has been filling my mind lately? How to “supersize” my bank account! How to “supersize” my wardrobe/possession! Well, I’m reminded today that I should be more preoccupied in supersizing my understanding of God’s greatness. Money doesn’t equal security. Possession doesn’t lead to everlasting joy. But knowing God does.It’s life-changing!
This morning when we were having a small group discussion on this passage, as I read through the verses, I noticed that the people Isaiah was speaking to would not respond positively to his message (as told by God Himself).
I was thinking how God (ultimately) values faithfulness from Isaiah, and not the result of his ministry. Our part is to be faithful to His calling and stick to our commitment to serve Him. The fruits or results of the labour is God’s part. How encouraging that is!
think the term for us in Singapore is Upsize?
I use ODB for my daily devotion and am constantly surprised when (especially in my hardest time) God use it to speak to me. Feel like the ODB is personally written by Him for me ^.^
May God bless the writers to be able to be God’s pens for this cold world.
Recently my quiet time with Him has became a routine, and through this article, God opened my eyes to realize “Hey, I’m much…much more than what you can imagine, I am the God Almighty and there are many things you can/need to learn about/from Me.
How often I put God in a “small package” and opened it only when I need something from Him.
I always thank Him for being like the way He is. I mean, if God does not have the love, forgiveness, and wisdom He have right now, and be like other gods, probably He would have sent thunder upon me for many the sins I’ve made.
I really thank Him, for Jesus Christ, for I realize, there’s no way I can join Him in His everlasting salvation.
I am very thankful for God’s Word. This year my desire is to increase in my knowledge of My Lord God through reading & meditating on His Word, quiet time, prayer and life experience. Nothing can compare to the joy of knowing Him.