January 16th — THE VOICE OF THE NATURE OF GOD
January 16th.THE VOICE OF THE NATURE OF GOD
"I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send?" Isaiah 6:8
When we speak of the cal of God, we are apt to forget the most important feature, viz., the nature of the One Who cal s. There is the cal of the sea, the cal of the mountains, the cal of the great ice barriers, but these cal s are only heard by the few. The cal is the expression of the nature from which it comes, and we can only record the cal if the same nature is in us. The cal of God is the expression of God's nature, not of our nature. There are strands of the cal of God providential y at work for us which we recognize and no one else does. It is the threading of God's voice to us in some particular matter, and it is no use consulting anyone else about it. We have to keep that profound relationship between our souls and God.
The cal of God is not the echo of my nature; my affinities and personal temperament are not considered. As long as I consider my personal temperament and think about what I am fitted for, I shal never hear the cal of God. But when I am brought into relationship with God, I am in the condition Isaiah was in.
Isaiah's soul was so attuned to God by the tremendous crisis he had gone through that he recorded the cal of God to his amazed soul. The majority of us have no ear for anything but ourselves, we cannot hear a thing God says. To be brought into the zone of the cal of God is to be profoundly altered.