In The Light of His Presence

 

"Walking in the light of His presence."

 

I read it in Psalm 89:15 yesterday.

 

It says this, "Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of Your presence Lord."

 

Light of His presence.

 

And I started to think about what that means.

 

Because "in the light" everything is exposed.

The good and the bad.

And everything in between.

 

When Isaiah was called to be the prophet - the one God would use to be His mouthpiece to the nation - he had a pure vision of the Lord standing before him.

 

Chapter 6 gives us this beautiful image of Isaiah standing in the presence of the Lord and of his angels singing unto Him, "Holy, Holy, Holy!" (verse 3)

 

And it was in this moment that Isaiah realized his sin.

 

Isaiah actually says it, "I am doomed! For I am a sinful man! I have filthy lips and I live among people with filthy lips!" (verse 5a)

 

And it was being in His glorious presence that the sin was most evident, most realized, and recognized by the would-be prophet. In His presence Isaiah felt sin-stained and unworthy.

 

But Isaiah continues, "Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven's Armies!" (verse 5b)

 

When we are in His presence - everything changes!

 

How we see sin, how we see others, how we see ourselves.

 

And so I took some time to write out some of the things seen in the "light of His presence":

• our sin
• our weakness
• our beauty
• our ugliness
• our undeservedness

All of it.

 

And presence is always intimacy designed to renew us, restore us, restrengthen us, realign us, redirect us.

 

It's worth thinking more on today as we seek His presence more than anything else!