What is your purpose in life?
What have you been called to do?
Do you really know what your purpose is?
Do you know what God has called you to do? Do you expect to be successful in your
calling? Do you believe that God ordains
success only? Will it be your success or
His success?
Probably every Christian knows the biblical name Isaiah. Isaiah, one who prophesied the birth of
the Messiah more than 700 years before he was born. Isaiah, the one with a spectacular call that
we read about in chapter 6 of the prophetic book that bears his name. Isaiah, the author of a book that is so like
the Bible with its two major divisions -- the first made up of 39 chapters and
the second made up of 27 chapters.
Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of four kings -- Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah.
Read the 6th chapter of Isaiah to know the vision that he
experienced. Learn or be reminded of
God's questions, "whom shall I send and who will go for us?" Isaiah quickly responded, "Here am I. Send me!" God then told Isaiah how unsuccessful he
would be in fulfilling his call, his
commission. He would tell people who
wouldn't listen. For how long would
this go on? For the entire time of
Isaiah's ministry was God's response.
Can you imagine that? If
God told you how unsuccessful you would be in doing what He told you, would you
still do it? Would you do it reluctantly?
Would you give the assignment your best, as Isaiah did? Give
consideration to this message given to the prophet for the people in Isaiah
55:9. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
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