Who Will Go?

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

What does God want from us? Isaiah saw Christ ‘high and lifted up.’ This was a life-changing moment for him. His clear sight of Christ enabled him to better understand Who Christ is. It also enabled him to better understand himself. Our text shows us that once he had seen Christ clearly, he began to have an idea of what God wanted from him personally. In Isaiah’s case it was that he would become a prophet to the nation of Israel. God wanted Isaiah to preach to His people. It was by gaining a clear sight of Christ that Isaiah came to understand this. We can have hope that God will so lead us. We have the Scriptures which show Christ to us. He is there on the pages of the Word of God in both the Old and New Testaments. As the Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them to us, we can not only understand more about Who He is, and who we are; we can also come to some conclusions about what He wants from us. He may not call us to be preachers, but He has created us for some specific purpose, and reveals it to us by Christ. 

Our Wise and Holy God, 
we rejoice that You do everything with intention and by design. 
We praise You that You have made us  
as we are for Your glory. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning