When Death Opens Your Eyes
“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the
seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is
full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which
he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but
perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how
long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the
houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed
men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet
in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil
tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves:
so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.” (Isaiah 6:1-13)
Today’s Morsel: How do you feel when you leave a funeral? Have you
changed? Do thoughts run through your mind of needing to get things right with
Jesus? What points did you take away from the deceased that you were not aware
of? What good and bad points did you walk away with? Were your eyes open to
things that you didn’t know? Isaiah said that in the year that king Uzziah died he also saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His
train filled the temple.
This king's death opened his eyes and he even received his call into the
ministry. Funerals are not only supposed to change you, but they are also
causes for preaching the gospel to a lost and dying world.
Sing: I saw the light, I saw the light, no
more in darkness, no more in the night. Now I am happy, no sorrow in
sight; praise the Lord I saw the light.
Thought For
Today: “It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of
feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his
heart.”
(Ecclesiastes 7:2)
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