The Messenger Wanted: Divine Choice Meets Human Offering

When Yahweh asks, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?" He describes a messenger from two perspectives. The Divine aspect asks, "Whom shall I send?" The human aspect asks, "Who will go for Us?" Yet these unite in the final phrase: "for Us"—a man endowed through Divine grace with superhuman, even Divine authority.

The messenger must be divinely chosen, cheerfully willing, and sent by the Triune God. When we proclaim the story of the Cross, we speak for God the Father. The blessed Spirit under whose dispensatorial power we live has no audible voice except through His people. He chooses loving hearts, compassionate lips, and tearful eyes as instruments of benediction.

But the person offering himself must first feel his own unworthiness through encountering God's presence and seeing Christ's glory—pierced by a sense of Divine holiness. He must possess a sense of mercy, offering himself not halfheartedly with monetary contribution, but unreservedly: "Here am I; send me." This is not conditional—no preferred location stipulated. The volunteer pauses to ask directions, surrendering control to Divine appointment. He does not say, "Here am I; away I will go," but "Here am I; send me." Obedience marks the difference between presumptuous self-direction and willing submission to Elohim's purposes.