Hello and welcome to today's Word of Encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled Send Me, was written by Francis Neil G. Holland-Oan.

When Swedish missionary Eric Lund felt called by God to go to Spain to do mission work in the late 1890s, he immediately obeyed.

He saw a little success there, but persevered in his conviction of God's calling.

One day he met a Filipino man, Braleo Manikin, and shared the gospel with him. Together, Lund and Manikin translated the Bible

into a local Philippine language, and later they started the first Baptist mission station in the

Philippines. Many would turn to Jesus, all because Lund, like the prophet Isaiah, responded to God's call.

In Isaiah 6.8, God asked for a willing person to go to Israel to declare his judgment for

the present and hope for the future. Isaiah volunteered boldly. Here am I. Send me. He didn't think he was qualified, for he'd confessed earlier,

I am a man of unclean lips. But he responded willingly because he'd witness God's holiness,

recognized his own sinfulness, and received his cleansing. Is God calling you to do something for him?

Are you holding back?

If so, remember all God has done

through Jesus' death and resurrection.

He's given us the Holy Spirit to help and guide us,

and he'll prepare us to answer his call.

And like Isaiah, may we respond, send me.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is taken from Isaiah, chapter 6,

verses 1 through 8. In the year that King uzziah died i saw the lord high and exalted seated on a throne and the train of his robe filled the temple above him were seraphim each with six wings with two wings they covered their faces with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,

and with two they were flying, and they were calling to one another,

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of His glory. At the sound of their

voices, the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

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