"Here am I"

Three times in Genesis 22 we read these three simple English words, "Here am I."  Each time it is Abraham's response to the beckon of someone asking or calling upon him.  The emphasis of this text is clear that it is God's call that outweighed anything logic might conjecture, anything his own desires may have presented, anything his circumstances may have shouted...his own son, servants, and so much else.  God's call would win out and indeed it should always win out, to where when we hear it all we say again and again is "Here am I."  

So I sit again in a place I knew well years ago (as I write this from my dad's porch).  I sit and look at who I am.  In doing so I realize the greatness of my inabilities to do any bit of what God calls me to do (on my own).  I pause to consider the gravity of what He's called me to and I am overwhelmed.  I look at how much of life has changed.  And again my heart says one simple thing - "Here am I."  I only want to be available to God in all times...for His glory.

And in aiming to plant a church I am not saying I am God's gift to the community, to lost people, to saved people.  Instead, I am only saying, "Here am I."  I am simply embracing this apparent calling that God initiated.  And as today comes to an end and rolls into tomorrow, I will say it again.  Because of His worth, because of His authority, because of His love I say with joy, confidence, faith, and expectation - "Here am I."