Isaiah 6:1-8 The story is told of the little girl who came home from Sunday school. What did you do today, asked dad. āI drew Godā, she said. āBut Lisaā, said dad, ānobody knows what God looks likeā. Lisa looked at him defiantly, and said, āwell, they do nowā. Isaiah 6 introduces us to God: not to the God of our imagination, but to the living God 1. To the God who is Holy The angels cry out āHoly, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of hostsā We are going to say that later on in the service, in the prayers and then during the communion prayer What does it mean to be holy? If someone or something is holy then it means that it is set apart, sacred, hallowed. It is the same root that we use in the Lordās Prayer when we pray āhallowed be your nameā. There is the holiness of the divine being. Philosophers speak of this as Godās ontological holiness. God is completely set apart from us, other to us. He is beyond all our categories. He is the creator of space and time and so is beyond our ideas o...
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