Have You Met Jesus?

Have you had a confrontation with Jesus Christ of Nazareth? What did that confrontation produce? What was revealed about you? What was revealed by standing in His presence? Was there a change that took place inside of you? Did you walk away a different person?

Job had a confrontation with the living God. Listen to what he said in Job 42:5-6. “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

In Zechariah chapter 3, Joshua the high priest stood before the angel of the Lord in filthy garments. Satan stood near accusing as usual, but the Lord rebuked him.

The Lord then removed the filthy garments of Joshua and clothed him with new garments of righteousness. He called Joshua a “brand plucked from the fire.” Then the Lord instructed him saying, “If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.”

When Isaiah saw the Lord in the year that king Uzziah died, (Isaiah 6:5), his response was similar. He 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

One of the seraphim came over to Isaiah carrying with him a live, hot coal from the altar of God and laid it upon his mouth and said, “Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.”

When we have a confrontation with the sinless, blameless, pure and holy Lamb of God, the darkness that is in us is exposed. In Job’s confrontation, he said, “I abhor myself.” Joshua stood with filthy garments. Isaiah said, “Woe is me! I am undone.”

What was your response when you met the Savior? Did the confrontation bring about a change? It should have.

Have the years passed and circumstances changed such that coals do not burn as bright? Come close to the fire again.

Call out “Breath on me oh Spirit of God!’ Ask as David in Psalm 51, “Create in me a clean heart , O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.”

God desires a relationship with His people. He is calling to you and me today. He is coming again to take His bride unto himself. Can you hear Him calling? Behold, He stands at your hearts door knocking. Let Him in so the two of you can enter into communion and fellowship.