“In the year of King Uzziahʼs death, I saw the sovereign master seated on a high, elevated throne. The hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs stood over him; each one had six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and they used the remaining two to fly. They called out to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord who commands armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!” The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.
I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD who commands armies.” But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, “Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, “Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?” I answered, “Here I am, send me!” He said, “Go and tell these people.” (Isaiah 6:1-6).
“In the year of King Uzziahʼs death,” I bet when most people read the passage above, the read over this line and did not give it much more thought than an interesting added historical note. However, it is an important element to this passage. King Uzziah ruled over Judah for over 52 years. He was a good king and ruled justly. If I was to ask you who was the best president we have had in the USA, some may say Reagan, some may say Obama. However, image a great, good president leading and serving our country not for 4 year, or 8 years, but 52 years. By the end of their presidency, as with the end of Uzziah’s rule, there would have been a feeling of great stability, prosperity, and peace in the in the nation.
When King Uzziah died, for the first time in over half a century stability ended, and uncertainty, chaos, change, overshadowed Judah. It citizens where fearful and had anxiety over their lives and their future. It was in this time of uncertainty and chaos the God came to Isaiah in his vision. If you look back at the history of all the revivals of God in the world, they did not come to a people in a time of prosperity, but in times of chaos, anxiety, and fear.
God wants to pour out His Holy Spirit into the church and into the lives of His people, including you and including me today. In the midst of our chaos and fears over our lives with inflation, mass shootings, racial concerns, hurricanes, the war in Ukraine, God wants a revival. This morning our cry is the same as in Isaiah’s vision, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord who commands armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!”
My family, I pray this morning you will cry out to God, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord who commands armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!” I pray in this anxiety of your life you will seek an outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you my friends!
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