Is 6:7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Sometimes when we are at a low, or God gives us a Word to do something – we ask ourselves and Him whether we qualify. This has been a human response since the Bible days; it seems to have been the first question we would ask. For some reason, we feel like God made the wrong choice in assigning us to that particular task or in blessing us with something. Often the assignments require us to stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zone and sometimes it doesn’t make sense but we know it’s from the Lord.
I know I’ve had those moments where I felt God should be using someone else and not me. But the question is “why not me?” After all, I am made in the image of God and for as long as I still have breath, He has a purpose and assignments for me. The most important thing to remember though is that it’s not about me but about His glory. Like Isaiah raised his hand and said “Lord send me”, we should be yielded vessels ready to be used by Him because He wants us to make ourselves available for Him. Jesus, talking about His purpose gave an example to His disciples that He can’t ask God to save him from his purpose for which he was brought to this earth. “… But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father glorify Your name,” Jn 12:23 – 27.
So you ask, do I Qualify? He said “…I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgements and do them;” Ezekiel 36: 24-27. You ask do I qualify? Think of the simple prayer we pray to Him and say “…May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”Matt 6:10. What are we really saying? You ask Do I qualify? And Paul says “May the God of peace…..make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever” – Heb 13:21. You ask do I qualify? And like Jesus said to His disciples “For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent Me...” Jn 6:38. You ask “do I qualify?” And David said “What is man that you are mindful of him, or the Son on man that You take care of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet…Heb 2:6-8. You ask, do I qualify? Need I answer that?
