Here Am I, Send Me

A person doesn’t necessarily have to pack a suitcase in order to be willing to go into the highways and hedges to compel the people to come in. In fact, a lot of us can just go next door, or across the street. In our experience, we have seen many more willing to go to the jungles of Africa before they would offer Yeshua to their neighbor. The best example of willingness to go is Yeshayahu. Here am I, send me. 

 

YHVH wants to send us where the seed needs to be planted. And, while we are there, we might harvest a seed someone planted years before. We don’t see a wheat crop in the middle of the interstate. Where he is asking us to go may be a little off the beaten track. It may not be Africa-it might be a group of teenagers that hang out under the bleachers at the Friday night high school football game.It might be old man who fought in the war or lost his wife to cancer, and turned to a bottle, that no one else will approach. 

 

Our great commission, as commanded by Yeshua, is to go out from Yerushalayim, to Yehudah, Shomron, and to the ends of the earth. (Ma'asim 1:8)

 

We know Yerushalayim is where YHVH lived-in the temple-and now we are the temple in which he lives, so the spreading of the gospel has to start within ourselves. We must know it by knowing him, in order to share it with others.

Next comes Yehuda Those who are non-believers in our households, our family and friends, coworkers and neighbors. Venturing into Shomron, we will meet those people who have tried “religion” and didn’t like it, yet profess a “knowing’ of YHVH. And, if we happen upon a woman by a well, we know we will be well received. (A little pun, there, to make you smile.)

 

And, lastly, we get to “the uttermost parts of the world.” It can mean Africa, but it doesn’t have to be that far away geographically. And, it doesn’t mean that is somewhere that hasn’t heard the gospel. It is those places where the gospel has been rejected, for whatever reason, causing that place to be “off limits” by others who are still  in Yerushalayim or Yehudah. Like under the bleachers on a Friday night, or visiting someone who has been through a terrible ordeal. The scenarios are as many as there are people in the world.

 

Does God want you to go for Him? Absolutely! Do you have to pack a suitcase to do it? Not necessarily!