Isaiah 6:8
8 Also I heard [shama`] the voice [qowl] of the Lord, ['Adonay]
saying, ['amar] Whom shall I send, [shalach] and who will go [yalak] for
us? Then said ['amar] I, Here am I; send [shalach] me. KJV-Interlinear
8 Then
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!" NASB
The Temple filled with
smoke preventing the view of the Lord, Isaiah now hears His voice. Just because
we cannot see God, does not mean that we cannot hear Him, and in our case we
hear God through His written word. No one in our current day can hear the
spoken voice of God ... unless they have missed taking their medication that
is.
Christ poses a simple
question and counsels Himself. 'Whom shall I send?' God is in no need of advice
from anyone. He knows everything. This counsel is for our benefit as well as
that of Isaiah.
God uses prepared
believers. Prepared believers are those who have advanced to some level of
spiritual maturity. Mature believers are not perfect. We saw Isaiah's reaction
when he saw the glorified Christ, but then none of us are perfect. Our first
orientation in life is to come to an understanding that as people none of us
have anything to boast about. Isaiah understood this principle.
Isaiah spoke up and
volunteered without hesitation. It is an honor to be called upon by God to
participate in any way which God chooses to use us. God doesn't need any of us
of course, but He does utilize us in this life as an active part of His plan.
The people in Judah were
in general anti-God. They were not interested, so God was going to give them a
message, a message of ignoring them. They have ignored God for so long, and
they have been warned time and time again, but the vast majority were
indifferent toward God. Now their time was up and God was going to turn His
back on them.
It is not a good thing
for your life if God turns His back on you and basically does with you what you
(as a negative person) are doing toward Him, namely becoming indifferent toward
Him, and remaining indifferent. God is the only one who holds our life
together. None of us can do that for ourselves. If God stops doing that for us,
then our life literally falls apart and the jungle of the world has its way
with us.
Go into a large city and
walk alone down a dark alley night after night, in a high crime area, and see
how much control you will have over your own life. The odds will be against
you. In this life you live in that dark alley when you ignore God in your life.
The odds are far worse for you.
But God will send a
prophet yet one more time. Isaiah is prepared, and Isaiah's preparation gives
him courage. He will tell it like it is. Note too, that Isaiah was not a great
person. He himself stated that he was a mere sinner, like everyone else in this
world. God does not send those who would be great, but those who would be
humble and prepared spiritually.
The message of the
messenger is not of the messenger, but of the one sending it. The message is
from God in all things that are spiritual. Isaiah will not invent the message
from his own imagination.
The messenger God chooses
is prepared because he pursues preparation with an insatiable hunger for
wisdom. God does not use those who basically ignore their spiritual lives, or
those who invent their own version of a spiritual life. Everything spiritual
must be done in conformance with Gods plan, not mans.
2 Cor. 2:16
16 to the one an aroma
from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is
adequate for these things? NASB
No one legitimately goes
forth in delivering any message from God unless God sends them. The legitimacy
of their appointment becomes clear in the content of their message.
Rom. 10:15
15 And how shall they
preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet
of those who bring glad tidings of good things!' NASB
Any person who is alive on
this earth can potentially be a messenger from God. Perhaps it will be to teach
millions, perhaps it will be to teach a single child. Both are infinitely
important. But neither messenger will function properly unless they themselves
learn the message and that message is the content of the Word of God, of
course.
You cannot teach what you
do not know. You cannot invent Gods will, but you have to learn it through a
daily study program combined with your residence in fellowship and function in
the spiritual life.
To ignore these things
will, sooner or later, get for you, Gods back, and then who will help you?
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