Isaiah Ch.6

Father God, thank you for this is the day that You have made and we shall be glad and rejoice in it. Thank you for today's Word and we ask for open hearts and minds to both hear and obey Your Word in the name of Jesus, Amen. Thank you LORD.

Isaiah chapter 6 shows us the genesis of Isaiah's calling as a prophet. In Isaiah 1:3, we see Isaiah coming to witness and experience the presence of the LORD. In Isaiah 1:5, the first thing that comes to him is the uncleanness of his lips in comparison to the LORD's holiness that He experienced. It reads, "Woe to me 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." You would think that this would disqualify him for the assignment but according to heaven, it was more important that Isaiah was available. In Isaiah 6:8, the Lord asked who would they send to deliver the assignment of the LORD and Isaiah willingly responds, "Here I am! Send me."

Indeed the LORD sent and equipped Isaiah as a prophet with this message to His people. Isaiah 6:9-10 NKJV reads, "And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive. Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return and be healed."

From a glance, it appears that these words of prophecy are almost setting up the people to 'miss God' if I may put it that way. Later on in the gospel of Matthew, Jesus uses the same words of Isaiah's prophecy to shade more light on this text. In Matthew 13:10-15, Jesus makes it clear that it has never been God's heart for His people to miss Him but rather it was because the people's hearts were too hardened to receive and understand God's Word in its purest form. This is the reason that Jesus spoke in parables but while He was away from the crowds, He took time to explain the meaning of the parables to His disciples. The same disciples by the power of the Holy Spirit later became witnesses who went into all the world preaching the gospel for Christ for all people to be saved (Acts 1:8). It is important to note that there was nothing special about Jesus' disciples. Interestingly, they were known as uneducated people by the religious leaders at the time who were more educated when it came to knowing God's ways. However, the disciples willingness to follow Jesus at all costs and their soft heart towards God's ways by getting to know Jesus Christ through experience and walking alongside Him while He was still here on earth qualified them to carry out heaven's assignment on earth.

Thankfully, today, we are in the era where God's knowledge is increasing and available to everyone. This is God's heart for all to know Him and abide in personal relationship with Him found in His One and only Son, Jesus Christ. This personal relationship with God in Christ gives everyone an opportunity to become a disciple, make disciples and most importantly receive a new heart because of their identity in Christ. John 1:12-13 NKJV reminds us of what God has done for us in Christ and it says, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Hebrews 8:10-13 confirms God's change of heart and mercy towards His people. The LORD God says,

10.For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

11.None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

12.For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.

13.In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."

AMEN, thank you LORD.

Invitation to salvation: If you would like to get to know this ever faithful God, who wants you to be in personal relationship with Him and go to heaven and escape eternal judgment and wrath through the power and wisdom found in His One and Only Son Jesus Christ, I invite you to make this confession:

Please speak the words below:

"I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that; Jesus Christ, the Son of God came in a human body to die for my sins so that I could have a new life where I am dead to sin and alive to God. I repent of my past sins and enter the Kingdom of light where I choose relationship with Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and with God as my loving Father today and forever." AMEN.

Congratulations, by grace you are saved and are now a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old life has passed away and you have received the free gift of salvation into your life (2 Corinthians 5:17) where you get to freely access everything I've shared in this post. To the glory of the Almighty God. Amen.

PS: In case you have not already, I encourage you to read Isaiah chapter 6.

Please find a church or in case you already have one, become a member and get water baptized! God bless you!

I'll end with Jesus' Words found Matthew 13:16-17 NKJV where He says,

"But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;

for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."

AMEN, thank you LORD for the blessing and privilege of salvation.