Prayer: Here I am; send me, LORD. Amen
Reading: Isaiah 6: 1-8 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Isaiah experienced quite a dramatic call from God to become a prophet. He had a vision of God in the temple - the Lord on a high and lofty throne, robe filling the temple, seraphs (imagine what you may) flying and calling, smoke, utter dismay at his unworthiness and sins blotted out by a burning coal to the lips. And after all that , the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send?..." to which Isaiah answers, "Here I am; send me!" Most of us in finding and following our call have not been through anything quite like that, of course. If it was a call to a career, there was vocational school or college to go to with all the classes, assignments and exams to prove oneself ready to do the job. After that, the search for a job...casting a wide net with applications with the message, "Here I am; I'll go to work for you!" All of us, like Isaiah, have a call from God. All of us are to love God and love others. How each of us do that might be a bit different but we can all have the same answer: "Here I am; send me!" -- Ruth Gates
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