{"id":465682,"date":"2025-01-14T00:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=465682"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:11:32","slug":"called-by-god-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/called-by-god-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Called by God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>I heard the voice of the Lord saying, \u201cWhom shall I send? And who will go for us?\u201d And I said, \u201cHere am I. Send me!\u201d \u2014Isaiah 6:8<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God didn\u2019t call Isaiah by name; he called for anyone willing to go. Isaiah simply heard and answered.<br>The call of God isn\u2019t reserved for a special few; it\u2019s for everyone. Whether or not we hear it depends on us. Are our ears open? Is our temperament in line with Christ\u2019s? \u201cFor many are invited, but few are chosen,\u201d Jesus said (Matthew 22:14). He meant that few prove themselves chosen. Chosen ones are those who, through Jesus Christ, have come into a relationship with God that has changed their temperament and opened their ears. All the time, they hear God asking, \u201cWhom shall I send?<br>God\u2019s call leaves us free to answer or not to answer. When Isaiah answered the call, it wasn\u2019t because God commanded him to. Isaiah was in God\u2019s presence and, when the call came, realized that there was nothing for him to do but to answer, consciously and freely, \u201cSend me.\u201d<br>We have to get rid of the idea that if God really wants us to do something, he will come at us with force or pleading. When Jesus called the disciples, there was no irresistible compulsion from the outside. Instead, Jesus came with a quiet, passionate insistence, speaking to men who were wide awake, with all their powers and faculties intact. If we let the Spirit bring us face-to-face with God, we too will hear what Isaiah heard\u2014\u201cWhom shall I send?\u201d\u2014and we will say, in perfect freedom, \u201cHere am I. Send me.\u201d<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the voice of the Lord saying, \u201cWhom shall I send? And who will go for us?\u201d And I said, \u201cHere am I. Send me!\u201d \u2014Isaiah 6:8 God didn\u2019t call Isaiah by name; he called for anyone willing to go. Isaiah simply heard and answered.The call of God isn\u2019t reserved for a special few; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}