THE GREAT ECLIPSE

"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you."

(Isa. 59:2)

Not only our vices but our virtues can come between us and our God. Good, whoever or whatever it may be, becomes bad when it gets between the two of us. Just as sinful pagan idols hid God's face from His people Israel, so godly Moses and Elijah obscured Jesus’ face from Peter, James and John on the mount of transfiguration. (Isa. 59:2)

 The loneliest saint on this earth is that man or woman who has allowed something or someone to pass between them and the Lover of their souls, thus hiding His blessed face. Such a person can say with David, "I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long." Psa. 38:6 Sadness marks saints in whose life is no light!

"Nothing between my soul and the Savior,

So that His blessed face may be seen;

Nothing preventing the least of His favor,

  Keep the way clear! Let nothing between."