Here Am I, Send Me

For those who watched the Charlie Kirk Memorial (along with the estimated 100,000,000 others from around the world), you may have seen the signs people carried. When I saw this sign in particular, it brought tears to my eyes. It was this very statement from Isaiah 6:8, that tore at my heart on numerous occasions while in Bible School in my late teens and early twenties that demanded a response.

What does this look in the practical?

The situation for Isaiah when God called him was perhaps a similar narrative to your own. He experienced God’s glory, His presence, and was stirred. In that place of surrender our hearts are open to what burdens His heart. When He speaks and asks for laborers, our yes will look like something.

It looks like continuing to seek to be living in the continual awareness of His presence.

It looks like simple obedience to whatever He says.

It looks like being a disciple who disciples, and that is what I want to briefly hone in on. It is wonderful to see the crowds and hear the testimonies, but how many remember (speaking to those who have been a Christian for a few years now), that being a Christian is not easy and requires grit!

Standing on the Word of God when all else is failing around you. Choosing to read the Word when the feelings for it are not present. Enduring and growing when life circumstances are anything but going your way and people are gossiping about you and misunderstanding your motives and intentions.

How often was it a friend or mentor who met with you—prayed with you—encouraged you—stood with you—that kept you going and helped you get to the next level in God that you needed to ascend to!

We have a whole new crop, of young people in particular, coming into the Kingdom and laborers, those burning ones for God, are needed to help bring in that harvest.

THAT MEANS WE NEED PEOPLE TO DISCIPLE.

In the course that we are currently running entitled “What is Church?” I define discipleship as taking what you have in God and imparting it to another. This often occurs over a meal or coffee and discipleship ALWAYS takes place in the context of relationships built on mutual trust.

So if you heart is alight with a “yes” and, “Here am I, Send Me,” then here is a simple and effective way to jump into the game! Become a discipler! Find those individuals in your church or area of influence, and take them out for coffee. Share your story. Share what God is speaking to you through His Word. Ask questions. Pray with them.

It is not as complicated as we often make it! Just go out! Make disciples. Fulfill the Great Commission!