Finding God or Not!

What are you and who are you in worship? Where is your mind and heart when you worship God? Are you there for some ancillary reasons? Expect to meet someone? Network with someone? Make a connection, see someone, get a phone number or a date? Are you in worship because your mother or father sent you and expects you to be there?  Do you permit your mind to freely drift to some really subordinate chamber of superfluous mundane chatter? Or do you find yourself in the awesome presence of God? Did you need and long to behold the Lord’? Isaiah found God in a new and perhaps different way than ever in his past (Is. 6). Blinded or preoccupied by his relationship with Uzziah, the good and gracious king, who is now out of the picture – Isaiah finally discovers the almighty God – the train that filled the most expansive building in the world, the seraphs, the wings, the feet. Immediately he perceives an inkling of the comparative deficit he of his humanity versus God. Like Isaiah in Isaiah 6, “we stand small and human before God, dependent on a gracious act for our restoration.” We become aware of the divine “otherness” of God. God is infinite, we are not; we’re finite. God is perfection, we are not. God is completely other and beyond the world and humane. Transcendence or immanence is God’s relation to the world.  When have you met God? Or did you ever? Or is it okay for you to continue to tread back and forth to worship and receive the same old thing or absolutely nothing of significance?  Just another human pursuit. Interesting: it is the very event of worship that Isaiah finds God, a new commission and dimension of himself. Ever met God in a meaningful revelation, something more than just in passing and demanded of yourself to linger there long enough that you received something from God? Did you stat long enough to behold a breakthrough blessing from the Lord? What was God like?