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ISAIAH 6:1-13

Isaiah's Commision

I'll call this passage as Isaiah's Vision and Mission, I have to wonder if the Seraphs that Isaiah saw were real or was it from a dream.   What would your reaction be if you've seen such creatures, an entity with 3 pairs of wings, never seeing their face nor their feet which is covered by the 2 pairs of wings then flying with only one pair.  Will you be scared or will you be at awe?

Isaiah's reaction was - woe... not Keanu's whoah!(which is something of an amazement) but woe, something that we talked about yesterday which is about grief and sadness.  This is what Isaiah felt because he knew that he was not worthy to see such majestic beings, messengers of God.  He knew of his shortcomings, he knew about his imperfections, the uncleaness of his lips and the uncleaness of the society he is in.  He humbled himself because he no longer can hide all the wickedness in the presence of the Lord, and because he acknowledge this the Lord stripped away his sins and his guilt.  Here's a simple truth that we often forget, because sometimes instead of asking for forgiveness for the sins we have committed, we tend to cover it up with another sin, and it will come to a point that our sins piles up a mountain high and we no longer know what to do.  When humility would have cleansed it the first time around.  Sins are heavy, they need to be heavy because if you can't feel the weight you will never be able to fall down in your knees to ask forgivess for them.  

After Isaiah's cleansing was the call to service.  When God called, Isaiah did not hesitate, he volunteered.  Even if what God wanted Isaiah to tell the people was unpopular.  This is I think what we would struggle in, please the people let them hear only what they want to hear or please God and tell the people what they need to hear.  This should be an easy choice, God should always trump everything else...

Isaiah 6:1-13

1  In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

2  Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

3  And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"

4  And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

5  And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

6  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7  And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."

8  And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

9  And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

10  Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

11  Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,

12  and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13  And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.