Shalom Dear Brothers and Sisters Purified
As I went back and read that, I was overwhelmed by the words of Isaiah in verse five. Isaiah declares, "woe is me for I am undone! I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell amongst the people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts". In the five previous chapters Isaiah had been already prophesying for the Lord to the children of Israel. Yet standing in the very presence of the Lord God Isaiah himself declares he is a man of unclean lips. He recognized his unworthiness and sinfulness yet compared to what was going on around him he was living quite righteously. Yet he includes himself as one of the people he lived with. He did not try to justify himself or the people he dwelt with standing in that light in the very Holy of Holies he realized who he was, a man of unclean lips. I too understood and feel often the same way as Isaiah did. What the Lord really wanted to show me though was what happened next. In verse 6, the Seraphim takes a live coal and touches Isaiah's lips and declares he is purified (my paraphrase). What struck me about this was the live coal that purified Isaiah's lips did not burn them! They cleanse them so that everything he would say he would speak for the Lord after that would be from Adonai. As I offered my heart to the Lord again asking him to please purify new areas for Him to dwell in I did not fear the consuming fire. I knew that it would only burn out the rubbish and the chaff all the unclean parts. I know one day my eyes will behold my King and my Judge my Beloved. More and more I am becoming aware as I sit at my Masters feet how absolutely Holy He is. Not only that but that His Heart is for His people to be set apart and holy unto Him as well. The only way we can do that is by allowing Him to show us the things we do not want to see so that we might be changed. When
we learn to hate the things that He hates we will grow into the glorious
vessels that He can use. When
we put Him first we can call on Him without fear or concern knowing that
His love will lead us into those dark crevices the places we don't want
to go because we know they are ugly but if we allow Him to touch those
areas with a live coal from the Holy of Holies it won't burn or blister
it will purify! Fear not
little flock Yeshua has already purchased you! There is nothing you can do to attain
salvation except through the blood of the pure spotless lamb! Yet knowing this fact I want to be all
I can be for Him.
B'Shem Yeshua Hamashiach, Amen In His Love, Theresa
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