Part of coming to know God intimately is hearing the truth about ourselves. We need someone who will tell us the truth. We don’t do that with each other because we don’t want to offend or hurt someone’s feelings, and also because we don’t want to make someone mad at us. Besides, all of us like being lied to occasionally. 

No women wants to ask, “How do you like my new outfit?” and hear, “Worst looking thing I have ever saw in my life.”  She does not want to hear that, just try it and see what happens, see where you will be sleeping tonight. 

The other thing about truth is that it is many times based on our own preference. Whether something looks good or not is subject to our own opinion. You don’t have that problem with God.  God calls it as He sees it, and He sees it perfectly every time. When God begins to unveil who He is, it also unveils who we are.  That’s the problem Peter had when he ran into Jesus at the lake and found out who he was.  Peter fell on his face and said, “I am a sinful man”. The closer you get to God the more His light will shine on you, and the brighter the light, the more revealed you will become. 

The prophet Isaiah saw the Lord and cried out, “Woe is me”. You see; if you want the real deal with God, you are going to get the truth, and sometimes it’s not going to be pleasant. But God doesn’t tell you the truth about yourself and then leave you hanging. A good doctor tells you you’re sick so you will get the proper treatment. The proper treatment for sin is repentance and forgiveness. You can never truly know God until you can truly see yourself in His light.

Meditate on the following and have a wonderful and Spirit-filled day.

Isaiah 6:1-7

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!"

4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 So I said:

"Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because 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."

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

"Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged."  (NKJV)