In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” 4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.” 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” —Isaiah 6:1–8
God desires to
and to use you for His glory and purpose.
The gospel is good news for your soul and Isaiah’s experience provides three motives for you to daily preach the gospel to yourself.
Preaching To Yourself Reminds You of Your Greatest
Preaching To Yourself Reminds You of God’s
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. —John 3:16
The good news of the gospel is not that we are so bad. The good news is that God, through Christ, has dealt with our badness.
We tend to think our relationship with God is based on our
The solution is
…though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. —Isaiah 1:18
Preaching To Yourself Reminds You to
“Our pleasure and our duty though opposite before, since we have seen, His beauty are joined to part no more.” —John Newton
When you realize what you were and what God has done for you, your response will be
God did not give us the gospel just so we could embrace it and be converted. Actually, He offers it to us every day as a gift that keeps on giving to us everything we need for life and godliness. The wise believer learns this truth early and becomes proficient in extracting valuable benefits from the gospel each day. We extract those benefits by being absorbed in the gospel, speaking it to ourselves when necessary, and by daring to reckon it true in all we do. —Milton Vincent