The following is from My Utmost For His Highest, July 3rd.
The Concentration of Personal Sin.
"Woe is me, I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips..." (Isaiah 6:5)
When I come into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular area of my life. A person will easily say, "Oh yes, I know I am a sinner," but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement.
There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life.
The effect of Isaiah's vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was "a man of unclean lips." "He touched my mouth with it, and said: 'Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and you sin purged' " (6:7) The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.
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