Isaiah 6:10-13 English Standard Version

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people dull,^[fat] and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
¹¹ Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,
¹² and the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
¹³ And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned^[purged] again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed^[offspring] is its stump.

This section of Isaiah 6 is entitled Isaiah’s commission from the Lord. These words are only the leading edge of his commission and is not the whole commission. It is a preamble. It sets the conditions that must be met before any meaning can be obtained for the reader.

Isaiah 7:8-9 English Standard Version

⁸ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’”

What is a commission without timing? What is spoken has a relationship in time so that those involved might see what is being done in their presence.

Isaiah 7:13-14 English Standard Version

¹³ And he^[Isaiah] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.^{[God with us]}

They did not hear, nor did they see, but we see.

Galatians 2:16-18 English Standard Version

¹⁶ yet we know that a person is not justified^{[counted righteous]} by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

¹⁷ But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸ For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

The lyrics are “I did it my way!” Those are the words of worldly pride. There is no humility in them. We should be people who endeavor to be justified by Christ. We should look at endeavor as a course of action on our part, separate from what God has done to justify us.

Verse 18 above is very clear that once we are born again, we should not go about building this new life in Christ after the model of our old life of sin. Doing it our way got us to a position where we needed Christ to save us. Why should we live once again to serve our egos by making the same mistakes again and again?

Isaiah 43:19 English Standard Version (ESV) Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

God declares that He is doing the work and that we are to perceive what He is doing.

Hebrews 12:6 English Standard Version (ESV) For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

When our perceptions are wrong, He will correct our vision.