In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple – Isaiah 6:1
If you were to see God now, what would your reaction be? Well, when Isaiah saw Him, this was his reaction:
“Woe is me, for I am undone! Because 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.” Isaiah was overwhelmed. He felt unworthy. For him it was a woe, not a blessing because he was aware of his spiritual condition. He was a man of unclean lips who lived among people in the same condition. Seeing the Almighty was his undoing. It was believed that when a person saw God, they would die.
After learning that they were going to have a son from the Angel of the LORD, Manoah and his wife offered a young goat with the grain offering to the LORD. As the flame went up toward heaven from the altar—the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord. Fearful, Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!” His wife allayed his fears by assuring him that, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time.”
When Isaiah saw God, he feared that he would be cut off, cease, perish but that didn’t happen. Instead, one of the seraphim flew to him, holding a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar and he touched Isaiah’s mouth with it, and said:
“Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.”
Isaiah’s unclean lips had been made clean. He had been cleansed and was now able to stand in the presence of a holy God. And when the Lord asked, “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Isaiah was able to say, “Here am I! Send me.”
How do we see God? We see Him in nature, in His Word, in our lives and in the lives of others. And how do we respond? If our eyes are spiritually open, then we can join the seraphim and proclaim, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”
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