Isaiah 6:1 “In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on the throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”
“Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all that God was, died – I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? Or – I saw the Lord?
It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. ‘In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.’
Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest