Thur Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

One of the kings who reigned during the ministry of Isaiah was a man named Uzziah. He was one of the more successful kings of Judah. He had strengthened the defense of Jerusalem, turning it into a fortified city that was able to fight off her enemies. He had led the nation to economic prosperity. God had favored the land with peace, prosperity, and security, but then Uzziah died.

In this culture when the king died your country was at its most vulnerable. This is when enemies would attack and a vicious enemy named Assyria was on the horizon with designs to conquer Judah and take the people into captivity. A giant cloud of fear had blocked out the sunshine of joy and the people didn’t know where to turn or who to turn to and that is when this happened.

“I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne…” (Isaiah 6:1)

Isaiah saw something for the first time that no one else in history had ever seen. He saw the creator God of the universe, the King of all Kings and the Lord of all Lords sitting, not on an earthly throne, but on an eternal throne. This is the King that he saw.

“I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.” (Isaiah 6:1)
There are two kings in verse 1. A king who has died and a King who lives, a human king and a divine King, a mortal king and an immortal King. What God is reminding Isaiah of is this – there is only One king that is indispensable and that is not the one who can die, but the One who can’t. The most important king in Isaiah’s life was not the one who was being buried, but the One who can never be.

What Isaiah saw then is what God wants you to see now. These were troubled days for Isaiah and the nation of Judah. A good king had died and Judah is facing invasion from an Assyrian army that is far more powerful than they are. When things are looking down that is when we need to look up. When Isaiah saw the real God he saw clearly what we need to see today and that is God is on the throne. His hand is on the throttle. He is in complete control.

There is a great word here for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. What matters most is not who is in the White House, but who is on the throne. We may face terrorist attacks, cultural meltdown, a sinking economy, a mountain of debt, increasing persecution, spiritual hostility, racism, poverty, global hunger, the shame of abortion--in short, trials, troubles, and tribulation, but in the midst of it all there is a sovereign God on the throne. When planes fly into towers, when doctors say, “You have cancer”, when the boss says, “You’re fired”, there is a God who is high and lifted up who is in complete control and knows exactly what He is doing.