Shalom,
Today I want to share again from Oswasld Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest". This is SO powerful!
Called Of
God
Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. — Isaiah 6:8
God did not
address the call to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying — “Who will go for us?”
The call of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone. Whether or not
I hear God’s call depends upon the state of my ears; and what I hear depends
upon my disposition. “Many are called but few are chosen” that is, few prove
themselves the chosen ones. The chosen ones are those who have come into a relationship
with God through Jesus Christ whereby their disposition has been altered and
their ears unstopped, and they hear the still small voice questioning all the
time — “Who will go for us?” It is not a question of God singling out a man and
saying, “Now, you go.” God did not lay a strong compulsion on Isaiah;
Isaiah was in the presence of God and he overheard the call, and realized that
there was nothing else for him but to say, in conscious freedom — “Here am I,
send me.”
Get out of
your mind the idea of expecting God to come with compulsions and pleadings.
When our Lord called His disciples there was no irresistible compulsion from
outside. The quiet passionate insistence of His “Follow Me” was spoken to men
with every power wide awake. If we let the Spirit of God bring us face to face
with God, we too shall hear something akin to what Isaiah heard, the still
small voice of God; and in perfect freedom will say — “Here am I; send me.”
AMEN! When we truly learn to KNOW our JESUS, we will never do things out of a sense of duty, but a sense of LOVE! Let's maintain THAT attitude! It is a no fail attitude to have! Here is Brooke Ligertwood with a new song called "A Thousand Hallelujahs":
Shalom in Him!