A God Who Is Bigger Than Any Experience

Who believes what we've heard and seen?  

• Who would have thought God's saving power would look like this?  
• Isaiah 53:1

The purpose of the vision is to enable me to see “the arm of the Lord” 

• behind all circumstances. 
• God never gives me the power to say “I see” 
• until my character proves itself worthy of its purification. 

What hinders the purging of my perception 

• is that I will build my faith on my experiences 
• instead of on the God who gave me the experiences. 

My experience is the evidence of my faith, 

• never the ground of it, 
• and is meant to reveal to me a God who is bigger than any experience. 

Have I seen also the Lord, 

• and do I know that He is holy?

I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, 

high and lifted up, 

and His train filled the temple.

Isaiah 6:1

Adapted Excerpt From

Notes on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

Oswald Chambers