Woe Is Me!
Read Isaiah 6:1-6. What was happening to Isaiah?
God transports Isaiah through vision into the heavenly throne room, where he sees God Himself seated on a throne, "high and lifted up" (Isa. 6:1).
In his vision of God's throne room, Isaiah is treated to an amazing spectacle. He sees the train of God's robe filling the temple and six-winged flying beings called seraphim. He hears them calling to each other in praise to God. Their voices must have been powerful, because they caused the doorposts to shake and the temple was filled with smoke.
Compare Isaiah's vision with these others who had an experience of seeing God. What was the common reaction? What important lesson can we take from these reactions about ourselves and our relationship to our Creator? Exod. 20:18, 19; Judg. 13:22; Job 42:5, 6; Rev. 1:17.
In response to his vision of "the King, the Lord of hosts," Isaiah cries out, "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips" (Isa. 6:5, NIV).
Damah, the Hebrew word for undone, means cut off, or finished. The King James Version also translates the word as perish (Ps. 49:12, 20) and as destroyed (Hos. 4:6). This word indicates that the experience totally devastated Isaiah. The vision of God helped Isaiah understand what he, himself, was really like in contrast to his Maker.
| What was it about seeing God that caused this reaction? How does this help us understand why Jesus came in human flesh to reveal to us what God is really like? |
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