Isaiah saw the holiness of God and heard the reaction of the adoring angels in its presence. Isaiah then looked at himself and said, “That doesn’t look like me. I don’t sound like that.” C. S. Lewis wrote, in Letters to an American Lady, “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible.” Isaiah gave us a glimpse of the wholly genuine seated on a throne, high and exalted. Looking so out of place in God’s presence, the prophet expressed an
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