Isa.6:6-8 – Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged.”

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

“Whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?”

I remember the first time I heard this verse preached from, it was in a Church of God near Kerman, California. I attended that service with a member of that church who had visited some of our meetings at God’s Army. I remember the guest evangelist preaching with fire about answering the call of God. I had been a believer less than a year and it was in this service that I remember sensing the calling of God on my life for the ministry. I understood I had been called out of the world to follow Jesus as a Christian but this was something different. The evangelist repeated this word “who will go, and whom shall I send” again and again. I remember being on my face at the altar in the front of the church and my friend crying next to me something about “the blood, the blood, the blood”. All I know is that the fear of God fell on me and I said yes to the Lord for anything, specifically the calling to preach the gospel. Here is what Matthew Henry had to say about this passage.

“Who it is who is deliberating. It is the LORD God in his glory, whom Isaiah saw on the high and exalted throne. It puts an honor on the ministry that when God wants to send a prophet to speak in his name, he appears in all the glory of the upper world. Ministers are ambassadors for the King of Kings; however lowly they are, the One who sends them is great. It is God in three persons — Who will go for us? God speaks similarly in Ge 1:26: Let us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make man. As in creation, so also in the redemption and overseeing of human beings, they all agree. Ministers are ordained in the same name into which all Christians are baptized.”

So here we are over 2700 years after the Lord visited Isaiah, now He has chosen to visit us; more specifically He has chosen to visit you. Maybe in this special season He has a special work that only you can do. The strangest thing about this; this is strictly between you and the Lord.