Send Me

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 221, Send Me.

"And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I said, 'Here I am! Send me.'" Isaiah 6:8.

Before that famous line, there's a scene we tend to rush past too quickly. Isaiah saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Seraphim covered their faces and called out: holy, holy, holy. And Isaiah, standing in front of that, did not feel proud to be there — he felt undone. "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips." He saw God's holiness and saw himself clearly for the first time.

And this is where a lot of people stop. We look at our own lives, our own failures, and think: I could never be useful to God. But watch what happens next: a seraph flies to Isaiah with a live coal from the altar and touches his lips. "Your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for." God was not waiting for Isaiah to purify himself. God did the purifying.

Only after this — only after the cleansing, never before — does Isaiah hear the question: "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Notice God does not point a finger and force anyone's hand. He asks the question and lets it hang in the air, waiting for a willing heart.

And Isaiah's answer is immediate. "Here I am! Send me." He did not ask where. He did not ask how long, or what the message would be, or whether it would be easy or hard. In fact, a few verses later, God reveals the mission will be difficult — the people will not listen, hearts will harden. Isaiah answered before he knew any of that. Willingness came first; the details came after.

That reframes something about how we respond to God, doesn't it? We want to know the whole plan before we say yes. We want guarantees, the full map. But Isaiah's "here I am" had no conditions attached to it. It was not "here I am, if it's easy," or "send me, but only if I get to see the outcome." It was pure availability, born out of a heart that had already been touched by grace.

I want to ask you something: is there anything God is calling you toward right now, and you're waiting to know every detail before you say yes? Maybe it's a hard conversation. Maybe it's serving somewhere you never expected. Maybe it's simply being available today, without knowing what for yet.

God's call almost never comes with the full map. It comes with a question, and it waits for an answer of faith.

So today, before you know all the details of what your day will ask of you, I want to invite you to pray these words out loud: "Here I am, Lord. Send me."

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.