THREE WORDS OF ISAIAH: THE WORD OF COMMITMENT

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Three Words Of Isaiah  

a) The prophet Isaiah writes, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up..." (Isaiah 6:1). In the rest of chapter six, Isaiah speaks three times in response to the things he sees and hears in his vision. His words express the innermost and deepest feelings of every dedicated child of God.

b) These are words from the past that should live on our tongues today. If we would like to be people of clean lips, what better can we do than say these words to God, and go and tell his word to others? We are saying to God, "I don't feel worthy to represent you, but I am willing — use me Lord, for as long as you need to".

2. The Word Of Commitment

a) "Lord, how long?" (Isaiah 6:11)

a) There seemed to be a bleak future. The Lord God speaks with bitter sarcasm. "Tell the people to keep on hearing, yet not understand! Make their ears heavy, lest they hear and understand and be healed!" (Of course the Lord wanted them to hear and understand, but they were too stupid and stubborn, and he is chiding them).

b) What a parallel in a land where it is in moral recession, on the brink of paganism, worldly and materialistic, and in some quarters hypocritical and greedy.

c) Yet there are people here who will hear, whose ears will hear and whose heart will understand. We must help the Lord to seek and save such as these.

d) Isaiah was really asking, "How patient and persistent must I be?" The Lord replies that Isaiah should work until the end, until the land is desolate, for among all the despair and desolation there was the holy seed. Likewise we must press on until the very end, until the final destruction of the world (2 Peter 3:10-15).

The End ...