From the Chapel: It is impossible to serve two masters, for we will love one and hate the other. We cannot hate the world in our flesh. We must see how beautiful Jesus is if we are to turn away from sin.

I'm preparing a study for the podcast. I'll be going through Roy Hession's book, “When I Saw Him.” And I can’t help but think of Paul when he was called by Jesus. He was knocked off his horse. He was knocked off all of his education. Knocked off of everything he had ever known. He was a pharisee trained under Gamaliel. The elite of the elite. It was in a sense his Harvard education. Also, in that book I mentioned, Roy Hession talks about when Isaiah had a vision. In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and the temple filled with smoke and the presence of God came in. And there are stories of other people in this book that I'll be studying about what happened to them when they saw Him.
       Paul was blind for three days and like the Word of God says, he had three days to think about Jesus. In those three days he understood that it was all over for him. The same thing happened to Isaiah when he saw the Lord. “I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips. And I dwell among a people of unclean lips.” His declaration of his filthiness in the sight and the acknowledgement of this God. That's all you can say. And I so hunger for that.
       You guys are on my prayer list and that's one of the things I'm asking God for you. Because until you see Him, it will feel like, “Man, I gotta give up this. I gotta give up that.” As if you've got to do something for God and then He's going to be happy with you and everything's going to change. It's not like that. Until you see Him, I don't know that you will be able to just give up all your stuff. You can and should when you see Him, because it's your reasonable service of worship to walk away from the things of this world.
       But the greater thing is to see Him. And when you see Him, those things are nothing to you. You will understand your life is over. It's not yours anymore and it won't be a chore. It won't be a drudgery to read the Word of God, to pray, or to love other people. It will be Jesus living His life through your life when you have seen Him. But if you haven't seen Him, you're going through the motions. And that is just my heart’s cry for myself and for you guys. God, please open our blind eyes because we’re so blind. We're so in love with the wrong stuff. And we can't see because we love so many other things.
       And if we have a part to play, our part is to walk away as best as we can from the things of this world—God's enemies. And He will provide the sight that you need. But I don't want to give the wrong impression. We have our part to play. You have to seek Him. You have to find Him. You have to ask, seek and knock. Do it every day. Fight for it. But then, I believe He's going to give you a sight that will absolutely, utterly transform you for the rest of your life. And some of you probably have already seen the Lord that way, but you need more. You desperately need more of Him.

‍

Resources:

• When I Saw Him: Where Revival Begins (Book) By Roy Hession