Sunday, April 5, 2009

"The only cure for the Uzziah Syndrome is an Isaiah experience with God that you will never get over. Most of us never make it to that point because we get angry when we are confronted with the truth. We get angry instead of yielding to sorrowful repentance, and we insist on swinging our sacred religious censers filled with unauthorized and unacceptable offerings. What we need are burning lips and a hot heart. One coal from His altar will cure our arrogance.
What we should really pray for is this: "Show me Your glory, Lord. You told us to seek Your face, and now we're trotting around in the diapers of immaturity. We don't even know what we are doing. We just know Daddy is in the house, and we're hunting for You."
There is room for only one king in the economy of God. I recently noticed that when King Herod rejected the baby Jesus, the infant King of kings evacuated to Egypt and did not return until Herod was dead.
If you insist on retaining the rulership over your life, God will just evacuate and wait until something dies and dependency is re-created. Then He comes right back. The Scriptures say, "Now when Herod was dead," Jesus and His family returned to Israel. Dead fleshly kings make way for living spiritual kings and kingdoms."

-Tommy Tenney (For reference see Isaiah 1-5)

3 comments:

JC said...

"What we need are burning lips and a hot heart. One coal from His altar will cure our arrogance."

Amwn to that. We need to be so desperate for God that we don't care the price to get clean. Christ be the Focus!!!

Robyn said...

haha. God's Kingdom is upside down.

die to live.
last is first.

i love it!

may He meet with you in all the cracks and spaces of your life.

Drew Coffman said...

Hahaha, I love how hopelessly blunt that last paragraph is. He'll just wait until something is dead.

This really does show what happens when we deny Him reign in our life. We can't fight it. We can only attempt to push Him away and out of our lives, a tactic which can't last either. How great is it when we finally give in?