A journal entry
I just read a small portion of Ezekiel for the first time. I am floored/in awe of/ confused by the prophet's depiction of God's glory. In most (if not all) of the prophetic books and in Psalms, God is seen as the most beautiful, majestic, awesome, and terrifying Being that exists. God gives the prophets these visions and He speaks to them (Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1&2, Daniel 10) and God is seen as transcendentally awesome. O that I might see Him this way! I am such an ungrateful, shortsighted, evil person. For God came to them [the prophets] and then was quiet, the heavens would open and close, yet these times where God appeared and spoke was enough for them to say with the angels "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty!" Yet I, despite having Heaven's permanent opening and revelation in God's word and God's very presence living inside of me, must struggle to see Him as this awesome at all!
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