Be Still And Know

This is Be still and Know on this very sad day. Let’s hear from the Bible together. Isaiah 6:1 "It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple." The death of King Uzziah after 52 years as King of Judah was a decisive moment in Isaiah’s life. Suddenly everything changed. For all of us the death of Queen Elizabeth is a defining moment. For the past seventy years she has faithfully served our nation and whether or not we would claim to be royalists we would surely all acknowledge that she has lived a remarkable life and been a great blessing. She has graciously and wisely fulfilled her duties and offered to the nation a wonderful example of Christian leadership. I am sure we will always remember exactly where we were when we heard the news of her death. Life won’t be quite the same again. We can’t know exactly how Isaiah felt when he heard the news of Uzziah’s death, but we do know that he went to the Temple and there he met