What you look at is what you see. So simple, yet so profound. We speak from what we see, we see what we look at. I was speaking to a man yesterday who is writing a novel in order to help veterans overcome the darkness they have seen in war. He explained to me how this novel is going to shine light into the dark places of these men’s hearts, who are held captive to hopelessness. Veterans have seen some dark things of the likes they cannot even explain and this man is shining light in the darkness.

My conversation with him made me realize again, how what we see is what we say. When you’re seeing darkness in people’s lives, in the world and in the news, it is easy to speak what you see. But what if we were not called to speak what we see in the world, but what we see in the Word? There is so much to see in the Word, but it must trump what you see in the world. Here is what Isaiah 6 saw and what the seraphim say. “In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called out to another and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.”

Isaiah could have focused on the death of the king, but he saw the King of kings and spoke about Him. The seraphim when they saw the Lord they said, “The earth is full of His glory!” Not the earth is full of death, darkness, gloom and doom, but full of the glory of God. Friends, we must say what God is saying, what the angels are seeing. The earth is full of glory, even Habakkuk 2:14 agrees “For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.” Glory is light not darkness; is life not death; is hope not fear. I see the Lord and He is the Light of the world, so I see a future so bright we have got to wear our shades.