Here Am I

Wed Night Service

Jan 29, 2025

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

Trying to get back into going to Wednesday night services again, unbusy my life. Fondly look back at those quiet nights, waiting earnestly to hear God's voice. Stomach started cramping right when ready to go, went anyway; no more excuses kept telling myself. Preaching started in Isaiah 6: 1-8. Very similar to what been reading in Ezekiel lately on the voice of God. This last verse really jumped out at me; "...voice of the Lord...". What would be my response, would I reply "Here am I, send me"?

If continue reading into verse 9, we see the Lord saying "...Go, and tell this people..." In verse 10, we then see "Make ... this people ... understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed". Familiar lessons in the past, dangers of just hearing the word, just understanding the word in your head knowledge, but here it shows we need to understand with ... heart.

As preacher continued with reading John 20, similar words strike me again. Mary came early, "...when it was yet dark". Then in verse 2 after seeing stone taken away from Christ tomb, where "...she runneth" to tell the other disciples. Reading through the chapter, reach verse 9 "For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead". That scripture is like the road to Emmaus where he opened their understanding to scripture. While our situations in this time are not like the disciples in a physical sense, we still today can have that sense of excitement, joy when Christ opens our understanding of scriptures. For new believers when Christ shows us he is risen. For struggling believers, faith under attack, alone like Mary coming to the tomb. For disciples traveling the road to Emmaus, they knew he was not in the tomb, they knew but their understanding of him rising from the dead was not known to them yet. They looked for a physical saviour from things in this life like the Romans. Today we look for saviour from health issues, financial struggles, etc. When Christ opens our understanding to the spiritual saviour, it is amazing.

We see in verse 11, "... Mary stood without ... weeping." Have we been at this point, where we don't understand what is going on, we are so desperate to hear God speak to us. At first the angels spoke to her in v13., "...Woman, why weepest thou?" Then she turned again, and in v15, "...Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou" whom seekest thou?" Just like on the road to Emmaus, where they didn't know it was Christ walking with them at first, the same is with Mary where she thought it was the gardener, and asks him where the body of Christ is. That powerful moment when Jesus said to her "...Mary". I don't think we could ever imagine that moment, but there are times where Christ talks to us through his spirit as he says my sheep hear my voice. Times where Christ calls us by name through his spirit.

Reading on to v.22, "...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:" These scriptures make me recall how God created Adam, and breathed life into him. Now we see Christ breath on them, and they received eternal life through his Spirit.

Need reference "In The Garden" song, and scriptures where God calls us by name.

God, Here Am I. He knowest me, and has called me by name.