In The Holiness of God
“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 unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!.” Isaiah 6:5
Yet, when God asks, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah responds, “Here am I, send me (Isaiah 6:6-9).”
Sproul comments:
Two important things must be noted in Isaiah’s reply. The first is that he was not Humpty-Dumpty. In the nursery rhyme the fall of Mr. Dumpty is tragic because no one in the entire kingdom had the power to put him together again. Yet he was no more fragile than Isaiah. Isaiah was shattered into as many pieces as a fallen egg. But God put him together again. God was able to take a shattered man and send him into the ministry. he took a sinful man and made him a prophet. He took a man with a dirty mouth and made him into God’s spokesman.
Earlier in the same section, Sproul writes:
There is a pattern here, a pattern repeated in history. God appears, people quake in terror, God forgives and heals, God sends. From brokenness to mission is the human pattern.
This book is fantastic. It flurries your imagination toward God beautiful ways and provokes a healthy fear of the God who powerfully raised Jesus from the grave.
I will also comment that this was the first theology book I ever read. I was 19. It catalyzed my reading of theology and have been doing so ever since!