January 14th — CALLED OF GOD
January 14th.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 cal to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying, "Who wil go for us?" The cal of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone.
Whether or not I hear God's cal depends upon the state of my ears; and what I hear depends upon my disposition. "Many are cal ed 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 stil smal voice questioning al the time, "Who wil 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 cal , 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 cal ed His disciples there was no irresistible compulsion from outside. The quiet passionate insistence of His "Fol ow 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 shal hear something akin to what Isaiah heard, the stil smal voice of God; and in perfect freedom wil say, "Here am I; send me."