Isaiah 2

So today I read Isaiah 2. I did quite enjoy this chapter, filled with daring prophecies of God's reign. I find so much of this chapter majestic, especially starting with verse 10.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty.

Imagine it for just a moment. Just think about it. God's glory and His majesty are so magnificently, incomprehensibly great that our souls quake, knowing how incompetent we are compared to Him. His beauty is so overpowering that it should terrify us. His glory is so majestic, His majesty so glorious, that our spirits just know that we are unworthy.

The remaining verses go on to talk about prideful men being humbled, because one day, on the Lord's day, He "alone shall be exalted..." Isn't that beautiful? That one day, pain and suffering will no longer reign on the Earth? That one day, all glory will be to God? Evil will be done away with, and all that remains is our King.

The more time we spend with God, the more I hope we realize His perfection and regality. We worship a God who transcends the human understandings of beauty and grace and power and majesty and dominion (forever and  ever. Amen. ...Yes, that was said slightly jocularly). Imagine the greatest being that you can. Then multiply its perfection by infinity. That, my friends, is 1% of God.

  The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
      The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
      And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
        For the day of the LORD of hosts
      Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
      Upon everything lifted up—
      And it shall be brought low—
        Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, 
      And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
        Upon all the high mountains,
      And upon all the hills that are lifted up; 
        Upon every high tower, 
      And upon every fortified wall; 
       Upon all the ships of Tarshish, 
      And upon all the beautiful sloops. 
       The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, 
      And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; 
      The LORD alone will be exalted in that day, 
       But the idols He shall utterly abolish. 
        They shall go into the holes of the rocks, 
      And into the caves of the earth, 
      From the terror of the LORD 
      And the glory of His majesty, 
      When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
      ~ Isaiah 2:11-19 (NKJV)