Devotion 7/10, Here I Am Lord
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Isaiah 6:8
We are on earth to glorify God with our lips, lives, hearts, and hands. With the world around us caught up in Satan’s traps, God wants us to hear his call in our church and private worship and respond to him, saying, “Here am I. Send me!” God wants us to enter the world redemptively, making a difference in our “public worship” through daily life in ministry and mission (Romans 12:1-2; Hebrews 12:28-13:16).
Romans 12:1 tells us to present our bodies as living sacrifices to God, this means laying aside our own flawed and imperfect will and following God’s will for us. Going where He instructs us to go, saying what He wants us to say, and keeping Him at the center of our lives at all times. Romans 12:2 tells us how to effectively do this, by not conforming to the ways of this world (sin), but by being renewed in our mind and in our actions. Then we will know God’s pleasing and perfect will for us!
Where is God sending you today, where is He sending me? Are we going to go as willingly as Isaiah did, with the joy of the Lord radiating from our faces and love for Him shining through to those we meet? Oh, that we would let the Holy Spirit of God, that is inside of us as believer’s in Christ, use us to draw people to Himself.
Loving God, thank you for giving me the experiences I’ve had. Thank you for the capabilities you wove into me while you fashioned me in my mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13-16). Thank you for the gifts your Spirit poured into me when I became your child. Now, dear Father, please help me to use these gifts, experiences, and capabilities for your Kingdom’s sake and to bless those around me. I want to use my gifts and abilities to bring others to you, build up the Body of Christ, and bless those in need. I pray all of this in the name and authority of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Lord, when you call on me today, I pray my one and only response will be “Here I Am Lord”! Amen.
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