Speaking for God

DEVOTION

ISAIAH

SPEAKING FOR GOD

Isa 6:1-9

6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 "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." 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." 8 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!" 9 He said, "Go and tell this people:

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There are several significant words within this portion of prophesies of Isaiah. Although we are told of the year in which all this happened, the most important of which we should take notice is the three holies. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. Why three holies? Why not, one for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Spirit. The three in one God Almighty is due all three of those holies. What else is also interesting which bears this three in one is the question which is asked. “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Although the Hebrew is difficult to make definite the “I” and the “us”, it is best put there is the context of the question. The point being the “Us”. When God spoke to Isaiah, he used a plural form, as if to say to Isaiah, “who will go for the three of us” “Who will I (the one God) send”? Another interesting idea is that the whole earth is filled with his glory. What this should me to us is that whenever we view the earth, or our little portion of the earth that we live in, we should see all the glory of the Lord. When we look at the sky, the clouds, even the rain and wind, we should see his glory. When we see all the trees and flowers, all the plants around us, we should see his glory. When we pass various animals either in pastures or pens, we should see his glory. All the earth is filled, as a glass is filled with water, with his glory. There is no empty space left in a full glass of water, and so it is with the glory of the Lord, no empty space left, all the earth is filled to overflowing with his glory, even when we look into the mirror. We are his creation, created in his image, so why would we not also be included as his glory filled all the earth? We also should not that Isaiah was beside himself being in the presence of God, and having God ask who can he send. Isaiah was not bold saying, “Send me”, I will go”. No, he was so humbled, being a man of unclean lips, but those are the men God desires the most to go and speak for him. Not the bold and brash, the prideful preachers of notoriety, but the humble servants of the Lord. Can the humble still become famous? It has happened, look how famous Isaiah is. Yet how more humbling can it be to first be made clean, cleansed from unclean lips and made holy and blameless in the sight of God. Then to be send to speak for him is even more humbling. But that does not mean we speak humbly, but rather we speak boldly, proclaiming the will of God. Because we are sent, as all of us are, being sent into all the world to proclaim the gospel, we speak for Lord, we speak for God. Let us always be aware we are speaking for God. This is not just in our words, but also in our life, being filled with his glory, we are speaking for God, being cleansed by the blood of the lamb, we are speaking for God.