Here I am, Lord. Send me!
“The words we Friends use to describe our prophetic witness ministry—testimony and witness—are judicial terms. They come from a time when Friends believed the world to be under God’s judgment, when we believed ourselves to be witnesses for the prosecution, testifying with our words to the character of God’s judgment, presenting our testimony as God’s righteous indictment of a world fallen out of the Life, and testifying with our lives to the way God wanted humans to walk over the world toward its restoration in Christ.
In this prophetic worldview, Friends saw themselves as answering a call from the same divine Spirit that had inspired the prophets of Scripture. Their answer to that call was the same as Isaiah’s: Here am I, Lord. Send me; send me!”
— Steven Davison, 2014
Quaker writer
Today’s Invitation
Answer a call from the same divine Spirit that inspired the prophets of Scripture.
This Week’s Query
How do you witness?
How would your life change if you considered yourself a prophet?
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