In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple. — Isaiah 6:1
This image to me speaks of the glory, majesty, and BIGNESS of God. But when I sit with it longer, I see healing.
Just then, a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years approached from behind and touched the end of his robe, for she said to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I’ll be made well.”, Jesus turned and saw her. “Have courage, daughter,” he said. “Your faith has saved you.”, And the woman was made well from that moment. — Matthew 9:20-22
They begged him that they might only touch the end of his robe, and as many as touched it were healed. — Matthew 14:36
Wherever he went, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch just the end of his robe. And everyone who touched it was healed. — Mark 6:56
The power of Christ (the power of Yahweh) was so great that even to touch the edge of his robe was to be healed. This is what “the hem of His robe” brings to mind. And in the vision above, Isaiah sees the hem of His robe filling the temple.
Two things stick out here:
<aside> In His presence, healing is inevitable.
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On Easter morning, I visualize Jesus walking from the tomb. I remember the climactic moment from The Passion of the Christ.
He is also the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. — Colossians 1:18
Spirit showed me today at our Easter service a vision of us following Jesus out of the tomb. He had to go in there, into death, in order to lead us out. We are the second-born from the dead. I see a mass of people, a church body, being lead out of the tomb behind our Good Shepherd.
And where is He leading us? Into the temple. When His body was torn, the veil that separated us from Yahweh, from the Holy of Holies, was torn as well.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom… — Matthew 27:51
Now Jesus leads us second-born from the dead into God’s presence where God always wanted us. The Son of God, also human and also beloved, leads us there, so we can believe the invitation. We don’t have to be afraid, we just have to follow Him in. We can sing with the angels as we stand on the King’s robe, being actively healed.
Today, I want to believe the invitation. When I see sin in my own heart, the death my flesh creates, I turn my eyes toward Christ and follow Him out of the grave. I believe His invitation into the presence, I follow, and I am healed.