Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
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Word for the Day
June - 22 - 2014
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WORSHIP: CELEBRATION
OF FAITH
Then I heard the voice of the Lord
saying, whom shall I send? and who will go for us? And I said, “Here am I.
Send me!”(V.8)
A Fresh Vision of God- Inspiring and Challenging.
Uzziah was the tenth king of Judah and he was very
Godly man. Under his influence the southern kingdom attained power, wealth
and success unlike any it had enjoyed since the days of Solomon .Prophet
Isaiah is disturbed by the sudden death of the king. His death shows the end
of time of great prosperity and consistency. Today text is wonderful God
encounter by sheer grace of God steps in and awakens us to different reality
God has this way of stepping in to our experience and turning our ordinary days
in to extra ordinary ones. What we need in the down times of life, we need
vision of God.
a) Vision leads to courage:
The death of Uzziah made the hope of the prophet was
lost. The future of the kingdom was having problem after the death of the
king. Sad Isaiah saw God's vision and sovereignty in the temple. An earth by
king may have died, but Lord still reigned. Isaiah had his attention focused
on Uzziah but now that the Uzzizh is dead, his attention is
redirected back to the Lord. What must have been a down time in the
prophet life became an uptime. That which had help his attention was removed
and Isaiah had a fresh encounter with God. What we need during the
down times in our lives we all have down time in life. Those down times can
grow us, or they can rain us, which depend upon what has our attention. The
Eternal God is always with us and strengthen us in life journey's do we
recognize the truth that God is with us.
b)Vision leads to confession:
When Isaiah saw the vision suddenly he aware that
there were sin with in his heart and his life. Vision leads him to a true
confession. I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of
unclean lips. Moving closer near to God and seeing him as
he reveals the wickedness and sin in our own lives. He confessed
his short coming before Lord .Until we see God and are confronted without own
condition before him, we will remain haughty and proud; but when we come face
to face who he is and what we are, it will produce humility and confession.
Until we are able to see our own failures and our need for repentance before
the lord, we will never come clean. Always God's vision leads us from unclean
to clean.
c)Vision leads to re commitment:
As soon as Isaiah gets his heart clean, he hears he
call of the lord to service. When Isaiah said "here am I ", he
is saying my down time is over and I am ready for service. We need to
get our all on the alter for God and come to the place where nothing
means anything to us but what he wants from us! We need to submit , surrender
and sacrifice as he resubmitting himself to God for his service after he saw
the Lord. Let us resubmit ourselves for his service where God has placed
in different places.
Prayer: O
Lord ,cleanse in me that which is impure: strengthen me where ever I weak so
that I became a servant to proclaim your message to all………Amen
Thought for the day: Glance at things but gaze at God
Rev K K Samuel
St Thomas Mar Thoma Church New York
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