Are You Ruined? Thoughts from Isaiah 6

ARE YOU RUINED? THOUGHTS FROM ISAIAH 6 
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Isaiah 6 Isaiah's Commission  1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:  "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;  the whole earth is full of his glory."  4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.   5 "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."   
 
  
  
I love this NIV translation. The King James used the word "undone" for the Hebrew daMAM. That was close, da-MAM means "done, finished" so "undone" is good. "Ruined" is better - perfect, I should say, in modern English. 
  
To recap, Isaiah the great and honorable prophet has a vision that he is in Heaven before God. Now Isaiah is "the prophet" of the Old Testament. He is known for being an upright, just man of God. But when he comes face to face with God, the first words out of his mouth are "I am ruined!" That's this wise and righteous man's reaction. 
  
All of our intelligence and imagination crumbles at the first real sight of God. Like Isaiah, we are harshly awakened to the reality that we fall far, far, far short of God's standards to remain in our own strength forever; we are ruined, garbage, crap. 
  
Long before we trivialized the word, God alone is "awesome". We the sinner fall short no matter how "good" we are. In this Isaiah 6 glimpse of Heaven, we get an idea of the true reality that we run from, day after day. 

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