Religion & Spirituality
Against the backdrop of a depraved world and an invasion comes this unveiling of God’s majesty and glory. If there’s any time that we need a reminder of God’s bigness, it is now. 2020 has made us more aware of the futility of our plans, our visions, our health, and our lives. In this chapter, Isaiah received vision of how big God is - the hem of his robe filled the temple. The seraphim, six-winged courtiers, called God ‘holy, holy, holy’; his glory filling the earth. In Hebrew, there are no superlatives, so repetition is used instead. God is the most holy - the holiest - and his glory and power is beyond description. Is the God of Isaiah 6 the Jesus you know? We regularly make God to be small. The ‘all-matey’ when he is the almighty. Isaiah needed his unclean lips to be atoned for by a burning coal from the altar, we have a mediator and saviour in Jesus Christ, God with us, who has atoned for our sins and made us clean through his blood shed on the cross. Now, we are to take this...