Posts made in September, 2022

TEXT: ‘In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple’ (Isaiah 6:1). Thousands of people die every day. The saying goes, “The only thing certain about life is death!” Unfortunately due to the internet and social media, daily we are made aware of deaths around the world and how they came about, however awful they may have been. The same was true in Isaiah’s day. People were dying daily too but when the monarch died it was of national importance. How would the new king act? Would they lead the nation in a godly or ungodly way? From Israel’s history we read that many kings started off with good intentions but strayed from pleasing God to carrying out their own agenda, usually to detriment of the people they reigned over. Our Queen has been a shining example of faithfulness to God and to the nation. In the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah had a vision of God and Today’s Teachings focusses on three principles of that encounter which will help us as we come to terms with the death of Queen Elizabeth. 1. In the year of death, Isaiah saw the One...