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Fifth Week after Epiphany - Year C
This Week's
Theme:
Expecting the Unexpected
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Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13) (ESV)
1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his
robe filled the temple.
2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with
two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and
with two he flew.
3 And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy,
holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"
4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice
of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am
a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand
a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this
has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin
atoned for."
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here
am I! Send me."
9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep
on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not
perceive.'
10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears
heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn
and be healed."
11 Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said:
"Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without
people, and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken
places are many in the midst of the land.
13 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned
again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it
is felled." The holy seed is its stump.
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Melancthon
discoursing with Luther touching the prophets, who continually
boast thus: "Thus saith the Lord," asked whether God
in person spoke with them or no. Luther replied: They were very
holy, spiritual people, who seriously contemplated upon holy
and divine things; Therefore God spake with them in their consciences,
which the prophets held as sure and certain revelations.
We read in the books of the Jews
that Isaiah was slain by king Ahaz, because he said: "I
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne," etc. Doubtless, Ahaz
said unto him: Thou wretch! how darest thou presume to say, "Thou
hast seen the Lord?" whereas God said to Moses, "Shall
a man see me, and live?" Thou art an insane heretic; thou
blasphemest God; thou art worthy of death; take him away. And
many think it quite just that Isaiah was slain for this, not
enduring that any man should say he had done or seen greater
things than Moses.
—Martin Luther,
Table Talk
Pulling
It Together
God
is completely holy. I am not. He is divine. I am human. He is
wise. I am foolish. He is perfect. I am far from that. In fact,
we are all far from being righteous. We have so little in common
but he calls out to us just the same. If we had been smart enough
to think about it, we never would have expected it: God inviting
us to his house, to eat his food, to be his people—his friends.
We were created to enjoy God and to be his friends, so we should
have expected this move but who could have foreseen this encounter
with the Divine?
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