Yeah, It's Kinda Like That

I can't help thinking of Isaiah and his vision when I read, "I'm feeling very very small because what I've just walked into is so very immeasurably vast."

Ding ding ding! I think Pastor BlueJeans hit the nail on the head, there, folks. I didn't make the connection to Isaiah 6 right away, but that was definitely how I was feeling. And to a lesser degree, it still is.

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 am still stunned. I am still half cowering there in the smoke. And, you know, I have to question the translation here. Woe to me? Riiiiight. Cause that's exactly the words that came to my mind when I found myself here. I am ruined. Yeah, that works for me. I'm thinking maybe not so much literally, cause we've already seen me ruined, and clearly this isn't that. But I fully understand the sentiment.

And my eyes haven't seen the King. Judging by the intensity of my weekend, it's no wonder God in the Old Testament kinda expected people to drop dead when they encountered him. It's no wonder Isaiah responded how he did. And, really, it's no wonder the seraphs were (are) singing Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty. Other than my initial expletives, this was about the only coherent thought I could muster. And it still plays in my mind. The Todd Agnew version.