Today I have spent five hours with the students at Bergen Bibelskole looking at the book of Isaiah. It was like Isaiah came alive to us in a real way. He was present with us in the classroom and his words hit us in power! His words presented us with the reality of God and insisted that we dealt with God as he reveals himself, not as we imagine him to be! He woke us up to the sovereign presence of God in our lives.
When we spend time with the prophets of God, among whom Isaiah is the supreme one, we are being changed by their vivid portraits of the Eternal One and their captivating visions of his kingdom. I was stirred in my spirit today as we looked at the prophetic ministry of Isaiah.
The visions of Isaiah and the images he uses to portrait the Unsearchable One are indeed relevant to postmodern people!