“There but for the Grace of God Go We”

“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” said the Lord. Isaiah answered, saying, “Here am I; send me” (Isa. 6:8). Only a few short verses before this powerful dialogue between God and the great prophet, it is written that Isaiah lamented how sinful of a man he was, saying, “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips” (v. 5).   To stand against evil for the cause of Jehovah God in Isaiah’s day was to sign yourself up...