Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts"
Text: Isaiah 6:3
REMEMBERING GOD’S CALLING
Isaiah’s ministry was a difficult one. Judah was caught up with great wickedness. His messages from the LORD were not heeded. He must have felt discouragement. Isaiah took to remember his calling from the LORD.
“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.
Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings:
with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
And one cried to another and said:
‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!'”
Isaiah 6:1-3
1. Isaiah remembered clearly when God called him.
a) It was the year when King Uzziah died.
b) Uzziah was quite a good king until pride got the better of him.
c) He was struck with leprosy by the LORD when he tried to offer incense in the Temple instead of using the services of the priests (2 Chronicles 26).
2. A vision of the LORD was given to Isaiah.
a) He saw the LORD in His glory.
b) God was sitting on His throne, high and lifted up.
c) His glory filled the temple of heaven.
3. He saw seraphim attending to the LORD.
a) Seraphim are powerful angels.
b) Their wings represented their power.
c) Though they were mighty, yet they were only serving the LORD.
4. The declaration of the seraphim.
a) They declared the profound holiness of the LORD.
b) They also proclaimed His great glory.
i) It filled heaven.
ii) It also filled the earth.
c) Sadly, the earth was so full of sin that it could not comprehend
God’s holiness and His glory.