Echoing Isaiah

"Lord, here I am, send me." I wonder how Isaiah felt when he spoke these words? Did he feel ready, did he feel able, gifted, prepared for the job?

I know that I often feel weak, useless, and ungifted. I know that I have a mental list of a hundred other people more gifted, more spiritual, more able than me. And I know that this is just the way I feel and that these are just feelings.

I know too that this is not how God sees me.

So I can come to God and echo the words of Isaiah, not because I have some great gift to offer God, but because I have myself. And that's all I have and all I can give. So I give it all to God again.

There is no greater cause to serve that the purposes of God in my generation.

Lord, here I am, send me.