a day in the Presence.

My plan to blog every day is not happening... go figure.

Lately I have been meditating on the Isaiah 6 encounter, Isaiah's commissioning. I've been struck with Isaiah's repentance and the events surrounding it. Him repenting seems pretty out of the blue unless you take into a count what He is coming in contact with. Picture this...

Isaiah gets taken up in the spirit and sees the Lord sitting on His throne, the train of His robe is filling the entire temple. There are seraphim who have 6 wings, 2 covered their faces & 2 covered their feet and the other 2 they flew with. The seraphim interacted with one another about the one whom they worshiped. They spoke to each other of Him saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts! the whole earth is full of His glory!!!" At that time, the foundations of the temple shook because the words of the seraphim were so right & true, & the house filled with smoke.

Okay... really think about that scenario. That's NUTS!!!! putting myself in that set up makes me fully understand why out of all things Isaiah's response was to repent. Why? Because He just saw the glory of God! He saw Him in the fullness of His character & got to experience first hand the seraphim, who gaze upon the Lord day & night as their full time job, talk to each other about WHO HE IS.

((side note: isn't it interesting that the seraphim are talking to EACH OTHER about who the Lord is & not just simply declaring it over Him? I'd never noticed that before...))

When we're in the presence of God we 1. realize who He is, which becomes the backdrop of 2. realizing who we are. Isaiah saw the Lord and instantly realized, I am a man of unclean lips, & I come from a people of unclean lips. WOE IS ME!

Something I love about this is that the seraphim respond to His repentance & in the presence of the Lord they touch Isaiah's lips with a coal from the altar & his guilt is instantly taken away & he is commissioned into being a messenger, a prophet of the living God.

You see, the Lord beckons us into His presence for us to realize who He is (the most important thing) to then show us who we are (wicked & broken) only to redeem us & release us from our guilt.

Because of going deep in this passage, I have greater understanding on Psalm 16, In Your presence, Lord, there is fullness of joy. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore!


::tomorrow I'll be posting picture of the ladies::

kK