Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
–Leonard Ravenhill

One of the things these words really brought home to me, which is slightly different than perhaps Ravenhill intended them, is how each of us have our own set of pressure points. We each have one or more “buttons” that when someone or something pushes them it brings out our passion. Our family. The elderly. Animals. Orphans. The homeless. The sick. I could go on and on. It is a precious and valuable gift to have something that tugs at your heart strings, something that gets your motor going. Something that gets you in the game as opposed to watching from the sidelines. Interesting how many cliches and euphemisms there are around the concept. I think it is because God wired us differently and yet our individual motivations are vital to who we each are as children of God. Imagine if no got excited about reaching out to ______. You can fill in the blank.

There are people and places and situations and things in each of our lives for which we would shout, “I WILL GO”, and things where we whisper quietly those same words. Today may God help you to expand the shouting.

“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!'”
Isaiah 6:8