“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…. for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” (Isaiah 6:1, 5b ESV). Isaiah was said to have had a close relationship with king Uzziah. In the year of his death Isaiah had a great vision of the holiness of God as well as his own undone-ness. With his old king’s demise and death he was finally able to get a vision of the real King, “the Lord of hosts.” Often we can never see God as King until the false centers of our lives are no longer present. Further, after this experience and his cleansing, Isaiah moved from merely serving an earthly king to serving the Heavenly King. Without this cosmic shift in his own life, would we even have the book of Isaiah that so shaped Israel and the church? Would such a cosmic shift in the life of the church save the church in this desperate hour?
“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.” (Isaiah 6:8 ESV).
{From the NEW devotional book, “Sonlight for the Soul” by H. Lamar Smith}
