Only God is great – and it’s because of His glory and grace. This past Sunday, Pastor Steven Gibbs continued in our new message series, Awakening: Step into the Life You Were Made For.  He unpacked what it means to awaken to the greatness of God as he went through the throne room scene in Isaiah 6:1-7. We might not reject God, but we do reduce Him, and the Bible makes it clear that He alone is high and lifted up. Because of His glory, life revolves around God – not us. 

“In the year that King Uzziah died 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.”

Isaiah 6:1-7

We might not reject God, but we will reduce Him.

Where am I “successful”?

How have I reduced God?

Because of God’s glory, life revolves around God … not us.

Because of God’s glory, He is worthy of worship.

What gets my attention?

Because of God’s glory, God is goodMoses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ 

Exodus 33:18-19

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:6

Do I live like God is good?

God is great because of His Grace.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:28-31