Isaiah 6:1-8

Isaiah 6:1-8

Chapter 6 of Isaiah is a critical chapter. It is here that Isaiah shares with us the details concerning his call and qualification for being a prophet of God. This message is so critical yet largely forgotten and ignored by many. It is God alone who calls one to ministry. It is God alone who qualifies a person for ministry.Here Isaiah will share with us an incredible vision he had of God. A vision of God is at the heart of our preparation to serve God. A true servant of God must be fully prepared to serve God before they can answer the call to serve God. Anyone who chooses to serve God apart from a vision of God is thoroughly unprepared. They will never serve God to the highest glory of God. All efforts will be feeble, futile and filled with the flesh. Men may marvel at all these great ministries, but God will never be glorified in it.Isaiah's immediate response to this vision was a deep sense of his utter depravity before a holy God. So to should be anyone's response be when they enter the presence of God. Convicted to the core, Isaiah cried out in confession and repentance of his vulgar sin and iniquity. What else are we able to cry out in the presence of God?God's grace hastened to meet Isaiah's need. God's grace is always sufficient. Through the intermediary work of the seraphim, Isaiah's iniquity was taken away and his sin was purged. Now, Isaiah is fully prepared and qualified to answer God's call on his life.
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Chapter 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
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