Isaiah 6:1-8 The Message
Holy, Holy, Holy!
6 1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a throne—high, exalted!—and the train of his robes filled the Temple. Angel-seraphs hovered above him, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew. And they called back and forth one to the other,
Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
His bright glory fills the whole earth.
The foundations trembled at the sound of the angel voices, and then the whole house filled with smoke. I said,
“Doom! It’s Doomsday!
I’m as good as dead!
Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—
blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same way,
using words that corrupt and desecrate.
And here I’ve looked God in the face!
The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!”
Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with the coal and said,
“Look. This coal has touched your lips.
Gone your guilt,
your sins wiped out.”
And then I heard the voice of the Master:
“Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?”
I spoke up,
“I’ll go.
Send me!”
The Word of God for the Children of God.
Adeste Fideles! Laeti Triumphantes! Venite Adoremus! Dominum.
Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.
Can it ever be understated or underestimated precisely how vital it is to the Christian life that we as sons and daughters of the most high God allow our affections to be stirred by the loving, powerful nature of our heavenly Father?
Too often we may find ourselves feeling or too often we will find ourselves hearing people say that God is too distant or too greatly separated from us.
Too often we will find ourselves allowing misconceptions or listening to the lies of too many others, allowing them to go unchallenged, to place a rift between us and every single one of our most valued neighbors and not experiencing God.
It is in our devotion to God, it’s in reminding ourselves of God’s character that Satan’s lies are broken, a pathway is set for us to encounter God’s tangible love.
Is God worthy of my devotion?
Is God worthy of your devotion?
Open your heart and mind and receive fresh revelation of the goodness of God.
Today, with our fresh anointing’s of the Holy Spirit, allow our affections to be stirred, our heart to be filled with desire to seek the face of our heavenly Father.
What if we risked asking ourselves if God is worthy?
Isaiah 6:4-5 Complete Jewish Bible
4 The doorposts shook at the sound of their shouting, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said,
“Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! —
because I, a man with unclean lips,
living among a people with unclean lips,
have seen with my own eyes
the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
If we like the Prophet Isaiah, we are declaring ourselves unworthy to be in the presence of God in God’s own throne room because of our “unclean lips,” “our unclean lives” living too comfortably, too complacently among too many others with “unclean lips” “unclean complacent” and “comfortable lives,” are we not also saying, in not so many or too many words, God is not worthy of devotion?
By not, like Isaiah; “fully sitting still,” “fully exalting God,” (Psalm 46:10-11)
Are we not setting our most unworthy selves up for the most unworthy failure?
Are we not even giving God any minimal opportunity to actually be God for us?
Why would we do that to ourselves if we actually believed, 100% believed, God is 100% worthy of 100% of our time, of 100% of our devotion every single day?
Do we even realize that this might be exactly what we are doing, what we are all saying to God, God is in fact only some smaller percentage, worthy of our lives?
What of our ‘valuing’ our fresh anointing from God?
Isaiah 6:5-8 Complete Jewish Bible
5 Then I said,
“Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! —
because I, a man with unclean lips,
living among a people with unclean lips,
have seen with my own eyes
the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
6 One of the s’rafim flew to me with a glowing coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,
“Here! This has touched your lips.
Your iniquity is gone,
your sin is atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of Adonai saying,
“Whom should I send?
Who will go for us?”
I answered, “I’m here, send me!”
Throughout the long concourse of reading and studying the Holy Scriptures we see a powerful principle exemplified: when God is seen for who God truly is, the natural response of the seer is inevitably their 100% full and absolute devotion.
When God reveals God’s glory, love, power, holiness, and splendor, the seer inevitably responds with their expression of absolute commitment, worship.
I believe that God would reveal himself to us today in simple but mighty ways.
I believe that God longs for us to see Him as he truly is, and that His chief desire is our devotion – to our finding God 100% worthy of 100% of our daily devotion.
May we see God face-to-face today and be forever changed by a fresh revelation of this God who would give up everything for relationship with us.
Isaiah 6 exemplifies both a vision of God and our worthy response of devotion.
Isaiah has an open vision of the majesty of God in heaven.
Isaiah sees God on his throne, hears angels declaring his holiness and splendor then shouting out, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” (Isaiah 6:3).
In response to this vision Isaiah 6:8 says, “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.’”
Humbled by the sight, Isaiah fully acknowledges God’s worthiness, responds to seeing God, seeing the fullness of God’s worthiness, with a life full of devotion.
God doesn’t ask for your devotion the way man does.
He doesn’t offer us ultimatums or transactional based benefits if we’ll love him.
Devotion to him is meant to be the natural response of seeing God for who He is, because he is inherently worthy of every bit of devotion we can bring to him.
He is 100% worthy of our maximum allegiance because He is the King of Kings.
He is worthy of our obedience because His will is both knowable and perfect.
He is 100% worthy of our maximum worship because He is the almighty God to whom all creation offers ceaseless praise.
And God is worthy of 100% of our hearts and 100% souls because He is the God of love and mercy who has created us for an exclusive relationship with him.
Way too often we are mistaking God’s mercy and grace as opportunities to go our own way and come back to him as we please or when we need something.
Way too often we are treating His love as an opiate for our problems rather than the foundation on which we devote our lives in our humble submission to him.
God is 100% patient.
He is 100% kind.
He will never force or manipulate us into loving Him.
But His patience, kindness, and gentleness do not change the fact that He is the King of kings, He is the Lord of lords, and He is the Creator of all, and He is all we need to live and He is 100% worthy and deserving of our ceaseless devotion.
Run to meet your God in the secret place today. (Matthew 6:4)
Psalm 17:13-15 Complete Jewish Bible
13 Arise, Adonai, confront them! Bring them down!
With your sword deliver me from the wicked,
14 with your hand, Adonai, from human beings,
from people whose portion in life is this world.
You fill their stomachs with your treasure,
their children will be satisfied too
and will leave their wealth to their little ones.
15 But my prayer, in righteousness, is to see your face;
on waking, may I be satisfied with a vision of you.
Look upon God’s face and see Him for both the loving and majestic God He is.
God longs to reveal His nature to you.
God longs for you to search out the depths of Him and be awed by his wonder and mystery.
Spend time in study, fellowship and prayer meeting with your loving heavenly Father and responding to His nature with ALL your love, worship, and devotion.
In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,
Guided Prayer:
1. Meditate on the majesty, holiness, and love of God.
Allow Scripture and the Holy Spirit to guide us into a direct encounter with the living God.
Ask God to reveal his nearness, holiness and love to you in a fresh way.
“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. 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. And one called to another and said:
‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!’
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 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!’
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.’” – >Isaiah 6:1-7
“I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.” – Isaiah 44:6
2. Spend time giving God thanks for who he is. Worship him in the beauty of His Holiness and His Worthiness, through devotion and with thanksgiving.
“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” – Psalm 107:1
“Through [Jesus] then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.” – >Hebrews 13:15
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!” – Psalm 92:1-5
3. Now offer God your total devotion in a 100% worthy response to who He is.
Commit to following his leadership and living your life in total obedience to God through the ever present help and continuous intercession of the Holy Spirit.
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.” – >Philippians 3:8
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” – Deuteronomy 6:5
May our life be a worthy example of a believer in love with God.
May we offer God all the love, obedience, and devotion we can.
All God desires is our heart.
He longs to have all of us.
He is completely relationship focused and completely lovesick for us.
2 Chronicles 16:9 says, “For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.”
God will help you live your life in commitment to him if you allow him to.
Revelation 4:9-11 Complete Jewish Bible
9 And whenever the living beings give glory, honor and thanks to the One sitting on the throne, to the One who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before the One sitting on the throne, who lives forever and ever, and worship him. They throw their crowns in front of the throne and say,
11 “You are worthy, Adonai Eloheinu,
to have glory, honor and power,
because you created all things —
yes, because of your will they were created
and came into being!”
Receive the Worthiness of the Lord!
Receive the Joy of the Lord!
Receive the Strength of the Lord!
and worthily respond to God’s love with our maximum devotion today.
Adeste Fideles! Laeti Triumphantes! Venite Adoremus! Dominum.
Gloria! In Excelsis Deo! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.
Loving God, Living God, Loving Hope, Living Hope, Loving Living Life His Way! "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." - Brother Lawrence (1605-1691), Practicing the Presence of God (1692). 