Sermon - 2/6/22

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When I was young, I did not have a very good sense of self. That poor sense of self led me to make some poor choices in life and it also kept me from making some wise decisions. You see, I often thought I was not good enough to achieve a specific goal. From the time I was quite young, I also had a desire to go into ministry and sensed God’s call in my life. However, I kept telling myself, “I am not good enough to do this. I am not worthy of doing this.” I felt pursuing such a goal was an exercise in futility. I could easily think of every possible reason to not respond to God’s call. As time went on, God just kept working on me and drawing me ever more deeply into the waters of God’s grace. God kept gently and graciously challenging me until I said, “Yes.” And, ultimately, my faith journey and the ministry I live into has been all about the way God graciously and lovingly works through the broken, imperfect person that I am. It really is all about a gracious, loving God who holds me in grace, the loving God who holds all of us in grace, and what that God of grace does with a YES. There is a corresponding, underlying message heard in each of our scripture readings today. All the people in today’s readings experienced a certain sense of unworthiness. In our first reading, King Uziah has just died, and Isaiah has a grand, glorious, bigger than life vision of God. As he finds himself in the presence of the greatness of God, Isaiah feels unworthy. He says, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" An angel then touches Isaiah’s lips with a piece of coal. When that happens, the grace of God’s holiness and the healing power o

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