Thanks to a popular Netflix series the Metallica song Master of Puppets has risen the charts once again. Back in 1986 Metallica frontman James Hetfield did an interview on the song. He spoke about how the song is about drug and how innitially people think they are in control and they won't get addicted. They can continue to do drugs recreationally with no consequences. Isn’t that true though? Most people don’t take drugs thinking they will become an addict. They think they can just play around with it without committing their lives to it. In fact, most people have the same unspoken attitude about God too. They want to play around with Him, experience Him recreationally, but do not have any intention of having Him become their Master. Their Adonai.

Thankfully, unlike drugs, which lead to ruined lives and death, when God becomes our Master, we can look forward to nothing but life and freedom in Him. As we will notice in the account of the prophet Isaiah, when we truly experience God personally, we must respond to Him as our Adonai.

Background: After the first 5 chapters in Isaiah of the prophet calling God’s people to repentance or face destruction for their idolatry, we get a snapshot of Isaiah recording his initial call to prophetic ministry. He receives a vision of God and then a commission from God. It is in this vision/commission that we will see:

2 life changing ways that we must respond to Adonai. (Isaiah 6:1-13)