Day 208 - Isaiah 6-8 (Here Am I, Send Me)
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'"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."'
(Isaiah 6:8)
In our text above, God called the prophet Isaiah to be a proclaimer of His Word to the Jews. In the succeeding verses, God instructs Isaiah to warn His people about their impending destruction. He tells Isaiah that they will not listen but that he will not leave them without a witness.
That is the nature of our God, He is compassionate and merciful and never forsakes any person until his last breath. Even in the Great Tribulation that will last seven years, we are told in the book of Revelation that God will send an angel to proclaim His mercy and truth before Jesus comes to destroy all who refuse to repent.
Isaiah responds to God's call by volunteering himself to go. Right before Isaiah's call, we read how he was touched by God by means of a live coal placed on his mouth by an angel through a vision he had. The angel told him that God had removed his sins. As a result of Isaiah's spiritual transformation, he wanted to be used by God to be a blessing to others.
Once God has touched our lives, He wants to use us to touch others also. He wants to use us to proclaim the good news of salvation to others and to warn them about God's impending judgment on sinners. Jesus spent most of His three and a half years of ministry preparing His disciples to become His witnesses and to make other disciples.
We read in the book of Romans how God has chosen to use frail human beings as His primary instrument in reaching the world for Himself:
"whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."
How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
(Romans 10:13-14)
Have you been touched by God with the fire of His Holy Spirit? Do you have the Son of God in your life? The Bible says, "He who has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life (1 John 5:12)." If you are saved, God is calling you to share the good news of salvation to others.
I believe that God has called me to return to my country, the Philippines, to witness for Him there. Now, God does not call everyone to leave his home and family and friends to go overseas to proclaim the gospel but He does call all of us to do it wherever we are planted such as in our neighborhood, workplace, school or anywhere we may be. Would you respond to God's call as Isaiah did by saying, "Here am I, send me."
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