Isaiah
“Here I am — send me.”
The man who saw the throne in the Temple — yet the first man to see his own impurity.
Isaiah was a man who prophesied across the reigns of four kings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He received his call in the Temple, in the year King Uzziah died. He saw the Lord seated on his throne, and heard the seraphim crying, 'Holy, holy, holy.' The doorposts of the Temple shook, and the room was filled with smoke.
His first words were not an acceptance of his mission. 'Woe is me! I am ruined! 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.' After that one honest confession, a seraph touched a burning coal from the altar to his lips: 'Your guilt is taken away.' Only then did he hear the voice: 'Whom shall I send?' The answer came: 'Here am I, send me.'
The message he proclaimed for the rest of his life flowed along two threads: judgment and comfort. Anger at idols and a song for the Messiah. In the darkest hour of his era, he saw a light. 'For to us a child is born... and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace' — a song to be fulfilled seven hundred years later in Bethlehem. The same hand that sang, 'He was pierced for our transgressions,' was the hand that saw the face of the Messiah first of all. Only the one who had seen his own impurity most honestly could sing comfort most deeply.
He saw the vision in the holy temple. Confessing his unclean lips, he spent his life singing comfort to his time.
Defining Moments
The events that made this person who they were
Crying 'Woe Is Me' Before the Vision in the Temple
In the year King Uzziah died, he sees the Lord seated on his throne in the Temple. As the seraphim cry 'Holy, holy, holy,' his own words are, 'I am a man of unclean lips.'
His Lips Made Clean by a Burning Coal
A seraph touches a burning coal from the altar to his lips. 'Your guilt is taken away.' Then a voice is heard: 'Whom shall I send?' He answers, 'Here am I, send me.'
A Child Has Been Born to Us
In the midst of darkness he sees a light. 'For to us a child is born... and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.' A song to be fulfilled seven hundred years later in Bethlehem.
Personality
The colors revealed through their story
An Honesty That Sees His Own Impurity First
Standing before holiness, he does not put forward his own righteousness. 'I am ruined' — that one honest sentence opens the door to his calling.
A Poet Holding Judgment and Comfort in the Same Hand
His book is divided into chapters 1-39 and 40-66. The same hand that cried out judgment sings, 'Comfort my people.' A depth that holds both threads.
A Vision That Shapes an Unseen Future into Song
In the midst of his own era's darkness, he sees a child seven hundred years away. A man who sings the brightest song in the darkest place.
★ Strengths
- Carrying deep inspiration into poetic words
◐ Shadow
- Burning out from excessive empathy
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