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October 10th 2025

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FRIDAY

“Doom! It’s Doomsday! I’m as good as dead! Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—blasphemous even! And the people I live with talk the same way, using words that corrupt and desecrate. And here I’ve looked God in the face! The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!”—Isaiah 6:5 (MSG)

Isaiah was a gifted individual, but no matter what gift we have, God can’t use us until we get ready on the inside. In Isaiah 6, Isaiah tells us, “I went to the Temple, where I saw Master sitting on a throne—high, exalted—and the train of His robes filled the Temple.”
To see ourselves right, we must have a personal experience with the Lord. When we see God’s holiness, righteousness, glory and goodness, then we see how far we fall short from what we ought to be—and it should cause us to mourn.
Isaiah looked inside himself, and he saw how weak he was, he realized how sinful he was, he realized how pitiful he was: “Doom! It’s Doomsday! I’m as good as dead! Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—blasphemous even!”
Before we are ready to serve, we must humble ourselves before the Lord. But something good will come from our mourning. God will bring comfort to our grief. God sent an angel to Isaiah and the angel took a live coal from the altar of the Temple. And the angel let the coal touch Isaiah’s lips. The coal was hot, but the heat was not to burn, but to purify.
God wants to purify us. And the only way for us to be purified is for us to experience the fire. Experiencing fire is not pleasant; it will make us see things about ourselves that we don’t want to see. But if we come through the fire, we will be better coming out than we were when we went in.
The angel touched Isaiah with the coal and, though it was hot, somehow the coal brought comfort to Isaiah. After God touched him with the coal, the Lord asked a question: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And Isaiah said, “Lord, here am I send me.”

PRAYER: Lord, as we see ourselves for who we really are, we are so thankful that we can be more through our relationship with You. Who we are causes us to mourn—to weep—for we know that we are less than what You have called us to be. But we are looking to You for comfort, consolation and renewal. As we go today, purify us; take us through the fire, that we might become usable to You in drawing others from darkness to the marvelous light. In the name of our Christ, we pray. AMEN!

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