“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
Let’s review Isaiah’s
(and our) journey so far…
Step one was a
revelation of God, high and exalted and far above any person we admire.
Step two was a
revelation of the holiness of God and Isaiah’s realization of his sinful state
before a holy God.
Today we look at
our third step in the journey, which is God’s atonement for our sin.
God provided the
solution, just as He did for Abraham on the mountain when He provided the sacrifice and just as He
did for you and I on the cross when He became
the sacrifice.
Isaiah was told
that, when the coal from the altar touched his lips, his guilt was taken away
and his sin was atoned for.
The unholy was
reckoned as holy, thanks to a God who provided the way.
So it is on our
journey with God.
There is nothing
we can do to cleanse ourselves.
We are born in
sin, but Jesus becomes sin for us.
He is our
atonement.
There is
absolutely no ‘end-play’ around this step of the journey that is sufficient to
take the place of the cross!
Isaiah was ready
for the next step of his journey.
Are you?
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