THE VISION WE NEED

“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.  Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:-1-5).

 

Isaiah was privileged with a sovereign revelation of the glorified and victorious Lord Jesus Christ.  However, before that came to pass the Lord killed Isaiah’s king, Uzziah.   Maybe Isaiah thought too highly of this most popular and powerful king (II Chronicles 26:11-15).  Maybe Isaiah took his eye of faith away from the King of kings and starting trusting Uzziah to solve Israel’s troubles.   When the Lord killed Uzziah, He took away all the support that Isaiah was resting in. Isaiah was shut up to the only King, God who is the King of all the earth (Psalm 47:7).

 

Here is the point for us to consider.  Before the Lord is pleased to exalt and reveal Christ in our heart all our “Uzziahs,” (our idols) must be killed.  The king of religious pride, self-righteousness and beauty must be slain before Christ our Beauty and our Righteousness is revealed (Song of Solomon 5:16).  The king of self-righteousness must be slain with the sword of truth, before Christ our Righteousness is made known (I Corinthians 1:30).  The king of riches, freewill, religious ceremony, and traditions of men must be destroyed before the Lord reveals Himself within us as “all and in all” (Colossians 3:11).

 

May the Lord be pleased to do for us what He did for Isaiah, slay all our idols and exalt Himself in our heart (Colossians 1:27).  This is what the Lord is teaching in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

 

-preacher Tom Harding 

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