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*What does God want from me?*
Isaiah 6:1-8
!!!!! Isaiah's Commission
/ 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
3 And they were calling to one another: \\ "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; \\ the whole earth is full of his glory."
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/ 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
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/ 5 "Woe to me!" I cried.
"I am ruined!
For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
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/ 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."
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/ 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?" \\ And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" /
Some serious issues in the news this week
have raised some interesting discussions.
Last Friday a terrorist cell
plotting an assault against Southern Ontario targets
was exposed.
These terrorists feel a deep and passionate calling
To change the world to their way of thinking,
And going to extreme means
To carry out their calling.
How many of you are following the World Cup of Soccer?
Yea, Paraguay didn’t do so great in their opening game
Against England…
But, there is one team that’s making a lot of headlines.
Trinity & Tobago is playing in their first ever World Cup…
Sweden was supposed to blow them away.
T&T is a small country of about a Million people…
And their national team players
Show up for practices on their bicycles.
They have no money,
No experience,
No big organization and support infrastructure…
But they have Heart!
They have a profound calling to seize their moment in history.
Today we want to look at God’s call upon our lives.
The text that was read is the story of
*Isaiah’s call and commissioning to preach.*
Do you ever wonder what God wants from you?
Why are you here on this earth?
What is the meaning of your life?
How do you know what God wants you to do with your life?
This is one of the questions that comes up every year
in our Catechism classes.
And, as if these questions aren’t big enough…
some people timidly wonder
If God is calling them into ministry.
I know our young people are busy BBQing
And getting our lunch ready…
But, if I could get everyone’s attention for a while
I think the Word of the Lord is speaking to us today…
Let me ask you a personal question…
Have you ever wondered if God wants you
To become a *pastor*?
Or a *counselor*?
Or a *missionary*?
Or a *caregiver *at a nursing home?
Does God want you to touch other people’s lives
With the grace and love of Jesus?
Just thinking about that question
Can send chills up your spine.
And how do you know
If you’re perceiving a “real call” from God
And not just suffering from a case of too much
Pork and beans?
There’s a story of
A young farmer, standing in his field,
Observing an interesting cloud formation.
The clouds form the letters G, F, and C,
and he thinks:
“That’s amazing!
God is calling me to “Go preach Christ!”
The farmer rushes to the deacons of his church
and insists that he has been called to preach.
They are, of course, respectful of his passion
And so they invite him to preach the following Sunday.
After all,
They did not want to stand in the way
of a call from God.
That Sunday, the sermon was long, tedious,
And virtually incoherent.
It didn’t make sense at all.
When it finally came to an end,
the leaders and the whole congregation sat in stunned silence.
Finally, a wizened deacon mutters to the would-be preacher,
“Seems to me the clouds were saying *‘Go plant corn.’*”
This wouldn’t be the first time
there’s been confusion about what it means
to be called into ministry.
The concept of a call
is a profound biblical idea.
There are many stories about calls to men and women
Who answered God’s call
And transformed their generation for God’s purposes.
A biblical call typically has some of the following elements:
First, in one way or another,
The calls all come from God.
God the Father called Abraham,
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