There are experiences with God described in the Bible that are awe-inspiring, vivid, over-powering and frankly frightening! I’m convinced they are put there for us to use the power of our imagination, enter into, and re-experience them!
In Revelation 1:10-19 we have Apostle John’s record of a God-experience like that he had on the lonely island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea in Northern Greece…
Now read this slowly, reflectively, and use your imagination, and see what its impact is on you!!!
Here’s what John experienced…“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet … I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw … One like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters… From his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was like the sun shining in all its strength! When I saw Him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But He laid his right hand on me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are, and those that are to take place after this!” (From Revelation 1:10–19 ESV)
Wow! How did that scene – that God-experience, that John shared impact you! And we are tempted to wring our hands and despair over things in our world that seem out of control … God’s control?! They are not! He is fully in control as Creator, Sustainer, and Savior! John’s record here of His experience with the Living, Almighty God needs to become ours! … “WRITE THEREFORE THE THINGS YOU HAVE SEEN, THOSE THAT ARE, AND THOSE THAT ARE TO TAKE PLACE… FEAR NOT, I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE LIVING ONE, I DIED, AND BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVER MORE, AND I HAVE THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HADES!” … JUST LET THAT SINK IN!!!
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