eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor nose smelled…

Usually during my quiet time I journal a lot, but today I
was reading Leviticus because I’m trying to read the Old Testament straight
through before I leave Mexico and was actually really into it, which that alone
is a work of the Holy Spirit, and so the only thing I wrote in my journal was:
I want to know you more deeply, more fully. 
I want to behold your power and glory in the sanctuary.  So at 9:30 when I went downstairs for worship
the first song was “Holy is the Lord”, which is a favorite, but just meant that
much more today because what I read today in Leviticus (chapters 1-9) was all
about the specific offerings and sacrifices- the specifics are so extreme that
you’re just like- really?  What is this
all about?  But I read something that
said “this unceasing sacrifice of animals was designed by God to burn into the
consciousness of the Jewish nation a sense of their deep sinfulness, and to be
an age-long picture of the coming sacrifice of Christ, toward whom the
sacrifices point and in whom they were fulfilled” and I just during that song
an overwhelming sense of His Holiness and my unworthiness, but I didn’t dwell
in the sin part because God immediately put it on me – “You are a royal
priesthood”- that I don’t have to be consecrated the way Aaron and his sons
were- all the ceremonial stuff- I am purely and simply part by the blood of
Jesus allowed to come into His presence, and I just felt God anointing my
senses, and I touched my eyes, my nose, my mouth and my ears.  So then we sang “Breathe”- This is the air I
breathe, your holy presence, living in me, and I just reflected on that
presence being upon me, and as we sang “This is my daily bread” this really
sweet smell came into the room, like bread with honey, except (this just shows
you how slow I am) my first thought was “Oh, I didn’t know Rita was here
already” (Rita is our cook, and she usually gets to the house about 10:30 to
start making lunch) and then I was thinking, “Since when does Rita make
bread?”  And then it occurred to me that
this could be God’s presence I was smelling. 
I’ve definitely never experienced that before, but afterwards God
brought Isaiah 64:4 to my attention- Eye has not seen, nor ear heard (could God
be saying, nor nose smelled?) nor have entered into the heart of man the things
which God has prepared for those who love Him. 
In speaking to God about this, He just let me know- (remember we are
grafted into His lineage, so the promises of the Israelites are for us as
believers to claim)- “If you want me to blow your mind, to overwhelm your
senses, to pour my Spirit out… Ezekiel 39:29- I will no longer hide my face
from you, for I will pour out my Spirit on your house…

Praise Him in the sanctuary! Psalm 150:1