Imagine a job posting on LinkedIn or Ziprecruiter with the following description:  Excellent opportunity for a career prophet demonstrating exceptional communication skills, interest in employment longevity, and a willingness to commit to a task leading to disappointment, minimal affirmation, and near-total failure.

Clearly there would not be a long line of applicants for such a position, and yet that is the career offered by God to Isaiah, one which he enthusiastically accepted and which he diligently pursued.

We read about the hiring process in Isaiah 6:1-13 as we move into this last of six episodes  in  the series entitled:  “I Saw the Lord:  Studies in the Book of Isaiah.”

With Bibles open to Isaiah 6, let’s consider together this most unusual job search in an episode entitled:  “Recruited for Failure.”

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