Sept. 14, 2026: Send Me

BIG IDEA:  Living SENT means taking the story of God to people who desperately need rescue and need to hear God’s Good News.  

Exodus 3:1-12
“Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Isaiah 6:1-8 (review)
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.” And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

Isaiah and Moses were called in very different places, but both were called by the same holy God. Isaiah encountered the Lord in the temple, high and exalted, surrounded by worship. Moses encountered God in the wilderness, in the flame of a burning bush while doing ordinary work. One calling came in a sacred space; the other came in a remote and ordinary place. Yet both remind us that God’s call can find us anywhere.

Isaiah’s response was confession: “Woe is me.” Moses’ response was insecurity: “Who am I?” Isaiah felt unclean before God’s holiness. Moses felt inadequate for God’s assignment. But in both stories, the focus quickly shifts from human weakness to God’s sufficiency. Isaiah is cleansed and sent. Moses is promised, “I will be with you.”

The calling of God does not begin with our confidence, competence, or readiness. It begins with His presence. Whether we feel sinful like Isaiah or insufficient like Moses, God is able to cleanse, equip, and send. The question is not whether we are enough. The question is whether we will trust the God who calls us.

Reflection:
Where are you more aware of your inadequacy than God’s presence?

Application:
Pray today, “Lord, I may not feel ready, but I trust that You are with me. Send me where You want me to go.”

Song of the Day:  
Take My Life and Let It Be | Reawaken Hymns | Official Lyric Video