Jackie Hill Perry: The Closer You Are to God, the Less You Can Hide

As the temple shivered without a breeze, Isaiah didn’t praise. He knew the right things to say, true things. That before Him was “the Lord of Hosts” (6:3) and the “Mighty one of Israel” (1:24). He could’ve invited himself into the Seraphim’s song as they called to one another about the King, their holy hymn. He decided against it choosing instead to make his first word a familiar one. “Woe.”““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 unclea