"Mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts”
Isaiah 6:5
Before sending Isaiah forth as his prophet, God showed him
his glory. Exposed to that radiance Isaiah could only cry out in dismay,
"Woe is me!" Prior to seeing the Lord, his lips were already unclean
and he had already been dwelling in the midst of a people of unclean lips; yet he
was unaware of all this. He might easily have considered himself fit to be a
prophet to God’s people—until that light shone down on him and he saw his
actual state and theirs.
How could he now become God’s mouthpiece, since his own
lips were so defiled? The one thing that made it possible was his response in the
face of God’s holiness—this cry of "Woe!"
Given such self-knowledge, he was ready for the seraph to
come from the altar and cleanse his lips. Let us, then, keep the sequence in
view, for it is a good one: first the uncleanness, then God’s light, followed
by the cry of self-knowledge, then the touch of cleansing, and finally the commission
to go and serve.
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