Uzziah Must Die!

Isaiah 6:1 

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Uzziah’s successes and power made him prideful and he forgot the source of his help.  He became full of himself.  He felt he could do anything he wanted to, including the things God’s law specifically said he shouldn’t. When he was reprimanded for doing wrong, he got angry instead repenting. 

Eventually, Uzziah lost the position and authority he reveled in as king.

No matter how good it looks or sounds, if the Lord isn’t at the foundation, it will fail.

Uzziah is anything/person influencing our lives more than God.  This results in our eyes not being focused on God (the source of help and success) but on the thing/person.  When this happens, the thing/person becomes our priority and the controller of our heart.

A living and thriving Uzziah results in obstructed vision that has us seeing good as evil and evil as good.  Right as wrong and wrong as right.  Hate as love and love as unimportant.  We think our vision is clear, but we can’t see truth and what’s important.

When Uzziah dies, our vision becomes clear and we refocus on and seek the source: God and everything He is.

Uzziah must die!