WHO WILL GO?

     “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
      The whole earth is full of His glory!”

 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.  So I said:

     “Woe is me, for I am undone!
       Because I am a man of unclean lips,
      And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
      For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”

 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. ⁷ And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

     “Behold, this has touched your lips;
      Your iniquity is taken away,
      And your sin purged.”

⁸ 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 6:3-8 NKJV 

Are you ready to say. "Here am I! Send me." ?  To go, do or say whatever the Lord directs you to do?  It may not be Africa that He wants to send you, it could be the neighbors next door.  There are people right here, in our own backyard that need to know that their is hope.   If you look further into the chapter, Isaiah did not have a very happy message for the people of Israel. God was tired of waiting for His people to turn away from worthless idols and turn back to Him, so he allowing another nation to carry them away. 

 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate, The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

However, there is a small hope:

  But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So the holy seed shall be its stump.”

A tenth of the people will be left, so that through them God's seed will remain, and not just any seed; the holy seed...

        And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.  And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

      ~ Luke 1:31, 32  

     THIS is our Hope!

“And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You!
     ~Psalm 39:7

     So who will go?  Who will share this hope with a dying world? Who will will say?  Here am I?  
      ~Oh Lord, stir up our hearts and let us be obedient to your calling in our lives.  Let us share the hope that we have in You with others. In Jesus' name. Amen.