Word for the Week

Peace, Perspective & Passion

Week beginning: 4th December, 2022 | By Howard Satterthwaite | London

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.… "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." 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!"

Isaiah 6:1-2, 5-8 (NIV)

How can we stand firm in unsettling seasons? How can we resist being conformed to the world and serve it counter-culturally? By beholding the Lord. Isaiah 'saw the Lord' when there was trouble abroad and disaster at home. The Assyrian war machine was