Isaiah

Isaiah 6:1-8
Isaiah knew and was reminded that he was unclean and unworthy of being in the presence of God's glory. but God tells Isaiah the truth that we ourselves so often forget--our shortcomings are atoned for and guilt is no longer ours. we in fact are unclean and unworthy on our own. by no means except by having a relationship from the heart with God through his son are we able to find out what our life is really meant for. we are given the chance to experience life with him by giving up our own plans and remembering that he died an unfair death so that we could have life.
we are tempted all the time to make this life our own. our personal selfish ambitions take over our hearts and we chase after them because the world tells us that we can. we get caught in a trap. and then we are so harshly reminded that we are failures by our own means...and remember why it is that we put our faith into the death and coming back of Jesus. it's like the common dream of walking into school one morning and it isn't until you are surrounded by a cloud of your peers that you realize you don't have pants on. it's like that feeling, but it regards the hidden insecurity of our own plans against God's. we might be making in okay for a while, but in the blink of an eye we are exposed for what's really in our hearts and we feel the grime and burden of trying to make it through life on our own.
Isaiah fell facedown and exclaimed his unworthiness. also, in the time of Isaiah, Jesus wasn't around yet. this gives us a different context than Isaiah because he didn't have living proof of a savior, like we do. Jesus came around so that we could be reconciled and God could once again live among his long lost children. this simple yet mind-bottling truth should be enough for us to fall facedown and proclaim our unworthy selves.
but i believe every single believer knows what i'm getting at. and we can count on it happening in the future..until we are fully in the presence of our Dad for real. the point here is whether or not we are exposed in our selfish ambition. because we all will be.
the point is what we do with the exposure of our hearts. will we admit how lost we are and ask for help? or will we run farther away to our security blankets.

"i'm not moved by what i think. i'm not moved by what i feel. i'm moved only by what i believe, and i believe the word of God"