This morning we looked at Isaiah 6:1-8, a famous passage where Isaiah’s vision of God completely transforms him and where God’s questions to him become the springboard to his service for God.
Isaiah’s vision is of the Lord ‘high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.’ (Is 6:1) We too need a vision of the Lord as high and exalted, a vision of God as on the throne, ruling in power. Ps 11:9 reminds us of God’s sovereignty; a vision that we serve an eternal God and an eternal kingdom (Ps 145:13) is essential if we are to stand in a secular world which dismisses God as irrelevant and unnecessary. Isaiah’s vision was also of a holy God, and we need to grasp just how different God is to mankind. God’s holiness must be real to us, not so that we can be in despair (Is 6:5), but so that we can be transformed. The third aspect of Isaiah’s vision was that ‘the whole earth is full of his glory.’ (Is 6:3) We must understand life in relation to God, that God is at the centre of life so that we are kept from a false view of reality: ‘For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.’ (Hab 2:14) We desperately need this vision because the world tells us that God is irrelevant, not important and not worth mentioning, but the truth is so very different. It’s all about God, and when we see this, we are irrevocably changed.
