Notes on Isaiah: Disillusioned to Stand

If you will let the Spirit of God bring you...

• face to face with God 
• you shall hear the still, small voice of God, 
• and in perfect freedom say, “Here am I; send me.

Have you been disillusioned about yourself ...

• and about the people of God? 
• When there is not a single prop left; 
• we come nearest to the attitude of Jesus Christ 
• who would not commit Himself to men because “He knew what was in man."

When once you have had the vision of God, or the experience of sanctification...

• you will be put into places where everything is as unlike God as the world, the flesh and the devil can make it, 
• and you have to be there not to criticize, 
• but to stand true to God in the center of it all, 
• and be crushed by the things that are not of God. 

After God has given us a time of face-to-face contact with Himself... 

• and then puts us into tumults, 
• the temptation is to sit down and say “Where is the blessedness I had when first I knew the Lord?” 
• The Spirit of God holds us steady until we learn to know God, 
• and the details of our lives are established before Him, 
• then nothing on the outside can move us. 

God can rely on the man or woman... 

• to whom He has given the vision of Himself. 
• Some of us are rushing on at such a headlong pace in Christian organization, 
• we want to vindicate God’s character in a great revival, 
• but if God did give us a revival we would be the first to forget Him 
• and swing off on some false fire. 
• When once we know Him we can stand wherever He puts us.

Adapted Excerpt From

Notes on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

Oswald Chambers