Presence of The Lord

I've always assumed a happy feeling and happy emotions with the presence of God. Until just the other day, when I felt a way that was in all honesty, dreadful. But as I was journaling and processing, I began to wonder why the presence of God should feel happy....His presence is an incredible gift. And when He is mightily moving and the enemy is trying to stop what He is doing, of course that presence is not going to feel happy. It's going to feel heavy, scary, and frankly quite dreadful...

      My point....the presence of God is some light happy thing....it is a gift, that is real, and scary because God is so unbelievably Holy, that to be in the presence of Him, is a big weight at times. A weight that may not always feel the greatest, but one that I never want to take for granted; that the God of Creation, would come and live inside of me and live among a sinful people, and greater still, live inside of me.

"And an angel of The Lord appeared to them, and the glory of The Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear." Luke 2:9

"But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." Isaiah 8:13

"Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!" Psalm 33:8

"For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods." Psalm 96:4