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You know you are ready to be God’s vessel when...
Imagine you’ve just landed your dream job.
You’re working for a cruise line!
Sure, the hours are long, but you’re getting what you’ve always wanted.
You get to enjoy the sun and the sea and the breeze.
You can visit new and exciting places.
The food is fabulous, even for the ship’s crew.
And you know that you’ll get to regularly meet new people.
This is the life!
Your main responsibility is arranging the top deck so that people have space to lounge in chairs, walk around, observe the scenery, and enjoy the available activities.
This goes great for awhile.
After all, you’re enjoying the sunshine on a cruise ship.
But then your job starts to get a bit old.
Every day in the morning you arrange the deck furniture the way it’s supposed to be.
By lunchtime, the guests have moved things around again so that you have to rearrange.
This happens again in the afternoon and evening.
Sometimes you wonder what these people are doing, moving things around so much; don’t they have better things to do?
One day, your shift starts a bit later, and you go out onto the deck to find that lounge chairs - and everything else, for that matter - have all been moved to one side of the deck.
Okay, now your convinced that there’s a conspiracy.
The guests have all decided that the main way for them to enjoy their cruise is to move deck chairs around and watch you reset them.
That’s probably why they paid to go on this cruise in the first place.
You’re so upset that you blindly begin an hours long task to rearrange the furniture.
About midway through you find it is becoming harder to keep the chairs in place.
They like to slide on their own.
And then you realize, the ship is listing to one side and chairs sliding along the slope.
Yes, you’ve been arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The futility of your efforts stand in contrast with the enormity of a much bigger concern: a sinking ship.
Suddenly your little task seems pointless, because you’ve been exposed to something much bigger.
You might say this example of arranging furniture on a sinking Titanic is a bit far-fetched.
You may be right, but doesn’t this sort of scenario play out in people’s everyday lives?
Have you ever found yourself concerned with - or consumed by - things that ultimately don’t matter?
We live in a world where there is such a thing as binge-watching, where some are addicted to shopping, where people have good hobbies that they allow to overtake their lives.
Have you ever come across someone like that?
Or there are people into physical fitness or healthy eating who have taken things to an obsession level.
While I’m stepping on toes here, did you know that the average smartphone owner checks their phone every 12 minutes?
A 2017 study by Asurion found this by surveying 2,000 people. 1 in 10 people actually checked their phone once every 4 minutes!
A third of people reported anxiety when separated from their phones.
I am not downplaying fitness, phones, or hobbies.
I am saying that we are prone to major on the minors.
We take small things and elevate them to exalted positions.
Every now and then we are fortunate enough to see what is really important.
This is what happened to Isaiah in .
He encountered God, and his life was altered.
Isaiah saw God in his glory and was forever changed.
That encounter with God ordered his priorities and established his life direction.
That’s what we want.
An encounter with God brings direction to your life, showing what is truly important and what isn’t.
Like Isaiah, God is calling us to represent him in the world.
Are you ready?
Isaiah’s encounter with the living God reveals three signs that you are prepared to be a vessel for God.
We will look at those today as we investigate .
God is calling us to represent him in the world.
Are you ready?
Isaiah’s encounter with the living God reveals three signs that you are prepared to be a vessel for God.
Isaiah begins in verse 1 saying his encounter took place “in the year that King Uzziah died.”
A little back story is in order.
Uzziah was a righteous king who reigned 52 years in Judah.
He led Judah to prosperity, reconquering lost territory and fortifying the land against threats.
Interestingly, these defenses included machines on the walls to launch arrows and rocks.
Judah’s renown increased during this time.
However, 11 years before his death, Uzziah was filled with pride and attempted to offer incense in the temple.
The priests tried to stop the king, who was unauthorized for this task, but Uzziah refused in anger, and God caused him to break out with leprosy while the censor was still smoking in his hands.
Uzziah’s son, Jotham, became the public face of the king who remained sequestered for the rest of his life.
Uzziah himself became a microcosm of the nation who had become prideful and blinded by its prosperity.
The people were disqualifying themselves in their hypocritical actions.
For 11 years, the nation functioned in a status quo without true direction or realization of how far they had strayed.
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