“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe
filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings
they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they
were flying. And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy,
holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”
At the sound of
their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and
the temple was
filled with smoke.
“Woe to me!” I
cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people
of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Then one of the
seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs
from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched
your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom
shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Isaiah 6:1-8
We’re ready to
go!
Or, are we?
The significance
of the question God asks, and Isaiah responds to, is the destination.
No longer is
Isaiah on a solitary, self-directed and self-determined journey.
The first step
of revelation, the second step of coming face-to-face with the holiness of God
and the third step of atonement were all steps of preparation.
Now there is a
journey to take that will be directed by God.
A commissioning
and a sending by Him for His purposes and not your own.
Are you perfect?
No.
Neither was
Isaiah.
Think of this
point in the journey like your graduation from high school.
Remember all of
those speeches about it being a beginning and not an end?
It’s true here
too.
God will
continue to work in you as you progress in the journey He sends you on.
Keep in mind
though that surrender is not a one-time-only proposition.
As we continue
to surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we continue on the
journey.
I don’t know how
many times and in how many ways Isaiah continued to respond
“…send me” but
the Book of Isaiah is evidence that
he did.
So step four –
the “…Send me…” step of our lives is a step we repeat over and over and over.
Surrender and sent
Surrender and
sent
Surrender and
sent
The cooperative
work between the Holy Spirit and you propels you forward on your journey!
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