* God told Isaiah to take his clothes off and walk around like a madman.

* It was three years of him doing this before the word of the Lord came to him.

* All that time he looked like a fool.

* God allowed Isaiah to be completely misunderstood.

* How was Isaiah able to obey like this?

* Because he had “seen the Lord.” Isaiah 6.

* God doesn’t need us to try to protect His reputation or ours - He just wants us to be faithful to obey even when we will be misunderstood.

* Think about what others thought of Mary as an unmarried pregnant teenager.