From A Park Bench - Here I Am. Send Me.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”   Isaiah 6:8

A few nights ago my wife and I were talking about Gideon and how God spoke and called him in an audible voice. There was Gideon threshing wheat in the winepress, hiding from the Midianites when the Angel of the Lord sat beside him and started to talk to him.

In the passage above from Isaiah we have the prophet given a vision of heaven and God commissioning him in an audible voice.

Both Gideon and Isaiah lived in a time when God was separated from his people. God dwelt in heaven and man dwelt on Earth. The Old Covenant was a covenant of separation, the veil separated God’s presence from the Children of the promise in the temple.  God called out his people to be holy, to separate themselves from the nations around them; God spoke audibly because he was separated from man.

The New Covenant is a covenant of union. God now dwells inside every believer, each of us are now in total and full union with Christ.

God does not have to ask ‘Who will I send?” because where his children go, He goes there with them.

Every second, in every mundane task, in every act of kindness, God is involved, living and acting through us by His grace.

If we are praying and waiting for God to do something for us, we will be waiting a very long, long time. God, by grace, has provided all we need and He has anticipated our every need.

We are His body, our touch to the lost is his touch, our outstretched hand to the hurting is his hand, and our listening ear to the lonely is his ear. When we connect to those around us, we are Christ to them.

We don’t need to be commissioned by God, every breath taken is God living and working through us.