“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,
The whole earth is full of His glory.”
And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
(Isaiah 6:1-5)
I turn to this passage essentially whenever I want to have my breath taken away.
I've become delightfully used to having the Lord share my earthly space with me. Silly as this may sound to some people, I take Revelation 3:20 fairly literally: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me." It was spoken to Christians about the fellowship He wants to have with us, after all, so I quite regularly ask Him things like, "Would You like a cup of tea?" or "What would You like for dinner?" I've asked and told Him many other mundane or outrageous things as well. He's my best Friend. He's the sweetest Love I've ever known, or ever could know.
But He is at the same time my Master and King. The loftiness of His holiness and majesty are not within my human ability to grasp. How can these two realities even co-exist?
For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
"I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite. ..."
(Isaiah 57:15)
I've quoted this passage before, but I'll do so again, because there's always more to see: Why does He humble Himself to dwell with us? He actually spells this out. It's "in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite."
So, is there a connection between His dining with us (or drinking tea with us) and His unfathomable holiness? Yes. Both things express how supremely holy He is. He deigns to set foot in us not only to be our Companion and Friend, but to revive us. To revive something literally means to give it new life; no one but God can give new life. If there were even one minuscule speck of decay or impurity in Him, His presence within us would surely destroy us.
Through intimate fellowship with us (with or without tea), He has access to our inner core. And it's there where profound healing begins.