The Wednesday within the Octave of the Feast of the Holy Trinity
Posted on June 3, 2026 by under
Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-13 (NKJV)
6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”
4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 So I said:
“Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said:
“Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.”
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 “Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
And He answered:
“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, the houses are without a man, the land is utterly desolate,
12 the Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 But yet a tenth will be in it, and will return and be for consuming, as a terebinth tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump.”
Devotion
The seraphim’s triple-cry of “Holy, holy, holy!” should remind us of the Holy Trinity. There are three who are holy—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—but the three are one Holy God. The Athanasian Creed confesses, “The whole three Persons are coeternal together and coequal, so that in all things… the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshiped.” These last three days have shown how the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is taught even in the Old Testament. If this were not so, then we would have one god of the Old Testament and a different god of the New. But this is impossible, because the Christ says, “these [the Scriptures] are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39).
Someone may ask: “how do you get the entire doctrine of the Trinity just from three ‘holys’?” There are many things in the Old Testament which were not fully understood or fully revealed until the Christ’s Advent. We do not really care whether Isaiah understood everything that he saw. The point is, now that the Christ has come and explained the Scriptures, we get to see the Christ and the Trinity in places that were once unclear, but now have been revealed in and by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Collect: Almighty and Everlasting God, Who hast given unto us, Thy servants, grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity: We beseech Thee, that Thou wouldst keep us steadfast in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities; Who livest and reignest, One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
