The Response of Yes
Our best and most treasured response to God’s glory is our yes, our ‘Here I Am.’ I’m learning the cure for resisting God is pretty simple. Gaze on him and inquire in his presence—to see him high and lifted up. It renews a right spirit in me. And regardless of when I feel the resistance, I’ve got to get back to the secret place as quickly as possible.
Below is a demonstration of this from Isaiah 6. Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, help us read this passage.
As we set our hearts on your coming and your coming again, I stand before you, Lord of Hosts, as a readied vessel—fill me with your glory. Open my eyes to see you high and lifted up as I open my mouth and heart to exalt you higher. You are holy! Shake every threshold in me. Purify my words with your name, Jesus. You’re the burning one that cleanses me from sin. I can’t stop gazing on you, beautiful, glorious Lord. Here I am.
Isaiah 6:1-7
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for…
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” And he said, “Go, and say to this people…
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