Here Am I

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 

A clear sight of Christ will have an effect upon our heart. We see the evidence of that in the life of Isaiah. When he saw Christ, ‘high and lifted up,’ he understood Who Christ is; who he was and what Christ wanted from him. Having thus understood what Christ wanted, Isaiah responded with, ‘Here am I! Send me.’ He was willing to go and do the work to which God was calling him. This willingness is not always immediate. Moses, Jeremiah and Jonah all offered some resistance to the revealed will of God. They were not immediately onboard with His call to them. Thus, God may reveal His will to us and we may not immediately embrace it. What will change our hearts, is a clear continuous sight of Christ. The work to which Christ calls us involves the imitation of Him. Therefore, it is the contemplation of Christ that leads to the imitation of Christ. As we behold Him in the Scripture, dwell upon Him, and see more and more of how He does, we learn to imitate Him, until we will to do His will. 

Our Gracious Master and our God, 
we rejoice that You draw us unto Yourself. 
We praise You that as You reveal Yourself to us, 
You bring us to the place where we do Your will. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning