Day 1: Awestruck Worship: Authority
In this third portrait we see how awesome God is through the vision of Isaiah in the Temple and how it leads us to worship in awe of His majesty. High and lifted up is the throne of God. This portrait looks at His Royal Authority. God is All Powerful, All Present, All Knowing.
Angels are messengers of God, awesome and terrifying. Yet, they are nothing compared to the holiness of God. In Isaiah, these spiritual messengers descend to the earth to remind us to be in awe of Almighty God.
When Isaiah came into the presence of the Lord, this writer of the largest book of the Major Prophets suddenly sensed how unclean he was. In our prayer portrait of Isaiah 6, we look at a sometimes overlooked aspect of our prayer lives: Admission and confession of our unrighteousness.
Absolution is not dilution of sin, nor “dissolving” our sins; rather is it an absolute release of our sin and its guilt. Absolution leads to atonement with God, purging our sin to make reconciliation with God.
Prayer is awesome because it means we have an audience with the God of the universe, who not only accepts us but also our prayers to Him. God invites us to join Him and actually commands us to give Him our requests. Unfortunately, His acceptance of us is often received with apathy.
Thomas abandoned his doubts as He was in awestruck wonder and worship of our resurrected Lord. This New Testament parallel in prayer shows us we should never doubt that He is our Lord and our God.
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