“Then said I, 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.” — Isaiah 6:5
This is the true response to an encounter with the holiness of the living God. Mystics and hippies chase after spiritual “experiences,” but in these encounters with what they perceive as divine they are never confronted with their own sin, but rather are flattered in it because they had a vision. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (1st John 1:8).”
The Israelites could not bear the voice of the Lord from Sinai. When Isaiah has a vision he realizes that he is depraved, unclean, not fit to speak of the glory before him. When Job, one of the greatest servants of the Lord to ever live, encounters the Lord in the whirlwind he says, “I am vile.” If you have never felt undone by the wretchedness of your sin condition then you should not presume to be a partaker of salvation. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble (James 4:6).
Selah.
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