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I came across some passages of scripture that really struck me – just thought I’d share them. 

I have always come across Isaiah 6 in the direct context of a worship setting: coming before the Lord for cleansing – allowing Him to fill the temple – and being filled and sent with His power to do His work.  I had never noticed some the significances of the first verse (niv):  “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”  The passion and power moving out from Isaiah 6 has a lot to do with who Uzziah was and why his death was so timely for Isaiah’s vision, healing, & commision:

Check out 2 Chronicles 26.1-23

My quick observations on this passage:

1.    Uzziah was a teen when he was made king (v3)
2.    He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord (v4)
3.    He accomplished so much in his lifetime (v.6-15)
4.    He became proud in later years of life (v.16)
5.    He desecrated the offering in the Temple (v.18)
6.    The Lord struck his face with leprosy (v.19)
7.    Uzziah died excluded from the Temple of the Lord (v.21)

After you finished reading 2 Chronicles 26.1-23, contemplate the story a moment...

Now check out Isaiah 6.1-9 again (niv)

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"  And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" 9 He said, "Go and tell this people:
"'Be ever hearing, but never understanding;  be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

Just so very powerful.  Don't even really know what to comment.  I guess I feel the scriptures speaking to my own approach to God's temple some times-- Do I enter in and desecrate?  Does this make any sense?  I'm just typing whatever.  Just some thoughts of mine tonight.