And When I Saw Him
“And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid;”
Here is the mystery; that we are more than our physical bodies, more than our mind and emotions. There’s a part of us that goes beyond the natural and connects with eternity. It's something we all feel without understanding its immaterial nature. Yet, how can you adequately describe a spiritual experience? We often express the way it impacts our thoughts or our feelings, like telling how it gave us joy or strength. At other times we relate it to intangible things like hope or love. What we see in the spirit brings eternity into our reality.
When John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, was old and alone in exile he gave himself to prayer; and being ‘in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day’ he received a revelation. He heard a loud, trumpeting voice behind him, and when he turned to see who spoke to him, he saw someone whose hair was as white as snow, with eyes like a flame of fire, his feet were glowing like a furnace, and he held stars in his hand. His whole body shone, more brightly than the sun! And when John saw Him, he fell at His feet as if he were dead!
Very few have encountered such a powerful event; it hardly seems the kind of experience one would seek. And yet, like Moses upon Mt. Sinai, the most earnest cry of the worshipping heart is, ‘Show me Thy glory!’ God could not reveal Himself to Moses then, but now, the ever-living Jesus gives to us the truest revelation of His beauty and majesty. We ought not be like those who draw back and turn away from God, but as those who believe in pressing into His manifest presence. And should the given revelation completely overwhelm us, He will lay His hand upon us and tell us, “Do not be afraid, I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.”
Read: Revelation 1:9-20