Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Isaiah 6:1-7

'In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train1 of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”


And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”'


I was reading this and I just thought how amazing the image that it conjured up was. There sits the Lord in majesty, surrounded by mighty angels. And one angel looks over to his fellow and just says, "GOD IS SO AMAZING! JUST LOOK AT HIM!!" And when this "simple" angel says this, the room shakes, and fills with smoke. That's so awesome.

I can't wait to be in the presence of the Lord, and just look over to my fellow believers, the Church, the bride of Christ, and say, "Holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of His Glory!" And they'll be like, "I KNOW, RIGHT?!!"

I could go into, the rest of the verse, which is almost as awesome, but this is all I really wanted to write about.
Here's Durer's interpretation of God; it is, however, taken from Revelation, not Isaiah, but I love looking at his work. The Church used to be so active in the arts back then. Image

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