Here I Am! Send Me!

Isaiah 6:8-9 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, Go… Isaiah was just a regular person like you, walking along, when he saw the Lord in all his splendor sitting on his throne. Imagine that!…

There He Is! Mercy Me!

Isaiah 6:6-7 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”  I am not sure if I am bringing up…

There He Is! Hide Me!

Isaiah 6:4-5 4 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…

There He Is! Holy Holy Holy!

Isaiah 6:1-2 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 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. 3 And…

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold,                   and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.  “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” We have all heard this one about stepping on the crack in the sidewalk. Leaping over the threshold may mean the same thing. Many in Judah were observing silly superstitions while…

Acts 2:12-13

And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”  I remember the ads in the back of comic books for junk with the promise,”Amaze your friends!” The attraction to the amazement of the crowd is what drives entertainers. It is also what drives the…