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Then the devotional contact today. Today’ s Bible reading is Isaiah, chapter

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six. In the year that King
Usias died I saw the Lord sitting on

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a high and sublime throne and his
skirts filled the temple. Above him were

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seraphim. They each had six wings, with two covering their faces, with

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two covering their feet, and with
two flying, and with one voice to

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the other saying Holy Holy, Holy
Lord of Armies. The whole earth is

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filled with its glory and the quicials
of the gates trembled with the voice of

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the one crying and the house was
filled with smoke. Then I said woe

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unto me that I am dead,
because I am an unclean man of lips,

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and dwell in the midst of a
people that hath unclean lips. My

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eyes have seen the king, the
LORD of hosts, and the bowls,

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one of the seraphim, having in
his hand a burning coal taken from the

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altar with the tongs, and touching
with it upon my mouth. And he

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said, Behold, this touched thy
lips, and thy guilt is taken away,

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and thy sin is cleansed. Then
I heard the voice of the Lord

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saying who I will send and who
will come after us. Then I answered,

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and sent me, and said,
Go, and say to this people,

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Hear ye, and understand not;
see ye indeed, but do not

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fatten the heart of this people,
and make their ears heavy, and their

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eyes blind, lest they see with
their eyes, nor hear with their ears,

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nor understand their hearts, nor be
converted, and there be healing for

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them. And I said until when, my lord, and he answered,

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till the cities be desolate, and
without inhabitant, and there be no man

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in the houses, and the land
be a wilderness, until the LORD hath

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driven men far away, and multiplied
the forsaken places in the midst of the

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land. And if I still have
a tenth of it, it will be

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destroyed again. But like oak and
oak that when cut, there is still

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the trunk, so will the trunk. The seed is Holy. Every Sunday.

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An endless crowd of people gather in
churches to worship God, but for

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many of them, going to church
is just one more point on their Dependent

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List an activity that fulfills their spiritual
duty. Although they may be moved by

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music and preaching. Soon they return
to a life in which God seems distant

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and the pleasures of the world begin
to look more attractive. Isaiah’ s

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time, apparently, was not so
different from ours Let us listen to God

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’ s judgment. This people praise
me with their mouths and honor me with

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their lips, but their heart is
far from me. Their worship is not

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bad than a command taught by men. What is the solution when God’

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s people do not give it due
importance? Isaiah' s encounter with the

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Lord in today' s reading is
a good example. When he saw the

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holiness of God, Isaiah was filled
with terror and a deep awareness of his

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own sin in the midst of anguish
he cried out. Woe to me that

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I am dead after being cleansed from
his sin. His only desire was to

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serve the Lord as his prophet and
he said eMe here send me. Although

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it is unlikely that we will experience
a vision like this. Every time we

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open the word of God, we
have the opportunity to see the king,

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the Lord of Armies, as Isaiah
did. What is even more surprising is

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that this holy and majestic God invites
us to relate to him through his son,

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Jesus Christ. If your spiritual life
has become too mechanical, it is

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time for you to focus your time
with God in a different way. Ask

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him to give you a heart,
to be open to a true encounter with

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him and wait patiently for his help