A daily thought ~ Being Sent.

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

Are we willing to be sent? When God calls do we, like Isaiah say, “Here I am! Send me”? Or do we respond like Jonah, not wanting, pretending not to hear and running the other way? It’s very easy to be a Jonah instead of an Isaiah. Are we prone to putting things off indefinitely until they are no longer relevant and never get done? Are we quick to place God’s call on the life of others without taking responsibility for it in our own lives? Are we jealous and bitter, particularly when things don’t turn out they way we want them too? All of these things are signs we are living in a Jonah mindset. Rather we should aim to live with Isaiah’s passion and obedience to God. He always went, no matter how hard or what cost. In the end God’s message did cost him his life, not a very attractive prospect hey? But this was the difference, Isaiah lived for God, death had no power over him because he knew the one who had complete power over death, the one being death could never take away.

This is the sort of passion and determination the apostles lived by. They were for God, nothing barred for the rest of their days. In fact, it is their commitment to the cause that convince even the more skeptical scholar that Jesus was an extraordinary man, who did things which, at the very least, appeared to be miracles to His fellow men. Nothing short of the miraculous could ever achieve that level of passion, commitment and unity amongst men until violent death.

May we honor this legacy of faithful men and women from through out the ages by taking up this mantle once again and proving that there is nothing else worth living and dying for aside from the person of Jesus Christ.

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