The Call to "Go"

Reading in Isaiah 6 we see Isaiah being in the presence of the Lord, recognizing his own shortfalls and then being touched with God’s holiness. When God called Him to “go”, he responded to Him, “here am I Lord, send me”. When Jesus finished speaking to the multitudes in Luke chapter 5, He challenged Peter to launch out into the deep. Being in the boat with His creator, Peter realized his own sinfulness and said “depart from me for I am a sinful man”. Yet Jesus called him and promised to make him a fisher of men. In Mathew 28 Jesus calls His disciples to “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” As we respond to God’s call we are all on a “Short-Term Mission”. The time is our life span. The mission field is everywhere. Jesus said in Acts, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The question remains…”are we willing to be involved in this mission? No wonder He says to pray, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”