6 Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 He touched my mouth with the coal and said,“Look. This coal has touched your lips.
Gone your guilt,
your sins wiped out.”

8 And then I heard the voice of the Master:“Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?”
I spoke up,
“I’ll go.
Send me!” (Isasiah 6:7-8, The Message).

Listen to Isaiah’s confession about being a man of unclean lips.  His desire for a life change… to be someone used by God.  “Here am I. Send me!”  His quest for forgiveness was not to get out of something or a situation but rather  into something… to be used completely by the Father. 

Those quiet and peaceful days that follow “hearing” the Lord are wonderful.  But if we aren’t careful it will be easy to think, “Did he really say that?… Did he really mean for me to go there and say that?  If we aren’t careful we will fall into a trap of doubt.  Once we here the call of God obedience must be the response – without delay.  There should not be idle time to ponder the instructions.  When I buy something that needs to be put together, I don’t open it up read the instructions then go and sit around somewhere to think about it… No, I act on what I have read. 

My prayer is not just for the sending but for the finishing as well.  Too many times we don’t finish out the plans of the Lord the way He intended.  We don’t finish strong.  I want my life to be remembered in such a way that people will know I followed with faith and finished strong.

God, “Here am I. Send me!”