GOD NEEDS SOMEONE TO SEND

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for SUNDAY, 12th FEBRUARY, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: GOD NEEDS SOMEONE TO SEND 

MEMORIZE: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”– Isaiah 6:8.

SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 6:8-10 

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.” 

EXPOSITION:

“Whom shall I send?” Intimating that the business was such as required a choice and well accomplished messenger, “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?” Jeremiah 49:19. God now appeared, attended with holy angels, and yet asks, Whom shall I send? For he would send them a prophet from among their brethren, Hebrews 2:17.

 [1] It is the unspeakable favour of God to us that he is pleased to send us his mind by men like ourselves, whose terror shall not make us afraid, and who are themselves concerned in the messages they bring. Those who are workers together with God are sinners and sufferers together with us. 

 [2] It is a rare thing to find one who is fit to go for God, and carry his messages to the children of men: Whom shall I send? Who is sufficient?  Such a degree of courage for God and concern for the souls of men as is necessary to make a man faithful, and withal such an insight into the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven as is necessary to make a man skilful, are seldom to be met with. Such an interpreter of the mind of God is one of a thousand, Job 33:23. 

 [3] None are allowed to go for God but those who are sent by him; he will own none but those whom he appoints, Ro 10:15.  It is Christ's work to put men into the ministry, 1Ti 1:12. 

 “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” Here is a communication between God and Isaiah about this matter. Those that would assist others in their correspondence with God must not themselves be strangers to it; for how can we expect that God should speak by us if we never heard him speaking to us, or that we should be accepted as the mouth of others to God if we never spoke to him heartily for ourselves? 

2. THE CONSENT OF ISAIAH TO IT: 

Then said I, Here am I; send me.  He was to go on a melancholy errand; the office seemed to go a begging, and every body declined it, and yet Isaiah offered himself to the service. It is an honour to be singular in appearing for God, Jg 5:7. We must not say, "I would go if I thought I should have success;" but, "I will go, and leave the success to God. Here am I; send me." 

Isaiah had been himself in a melancholy frame (Isa 6:5), full of doubts and fears; but now that he had the assurance of the pardon of his sin the clouds were blown over, and he was fit for service and forward to it. What he says denotes, 

(1.) His readiness: "Here am I, a volunteer, not pressed into the service."   Behold me; so the word is.  God says to us, Behold me (Isa 65:1), and, Here I am (Isa 58:9), even before we call; let us say so to him when he does call. 

(2.) His resolution; "Here I am, ready to encounter the greatest difficulties. I have set my face as a flint." Compare this with Isa 50:4-7. 

(3.) His referring himself to God:  "Send me whither thou wilt; make what use thou pleasest of me.  Send me, that is, Lord, give me commission and full instruction; send me, and then, no doubt, thou wilt stand by me." 

It is a great comfort to those whom God sends that they go for God, and may therefore speak in his name, as having authority, and be assured that he will bear them out. God needs someone to send, will He find you worthy, ready and available?

PRAYER POINT: Lord, here am I, send me to the glory of your holy name in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Numbers 22 - 24.

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