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". . . Thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity . . ." (Isaiah 57:15).
In this ungodly, secular age many people-even professing Christians-seem to have lost sight of the divine majesty of God. Many behave with unrecognized shallowness and irreverence, a lack of respect for our Creator. It seems His name is uttered more often in profanity than in respect.
But what about those who have glimpsed the majesty of God? How have they reacted? Scripture shows that their response has nearly always been one of profound humility. When the prophets of the Old Testament Scriptures and the apostles of the New Testament experienced God, to a man they saw themselves as utterly inadequate in comparison.
Close encounters with the divine
The patriarch Job, for example, became acutely aware of his insignificance when God revealed to him some aspects of the magnificence of His creation (Job 38-41). Job's humble reaction was immediate: "Then Job answered the LORD and said: 'I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You . . . I have uttered what I did not understand . . . Listen, please, and let me speak; I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes'" (Job 42:1-6).
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