Here I am

“that the LORD called Samuel, And he answered, “Here I am!”

I Samuel 3: 4 (New King James Version)

I was driving down the highway yesterday early morning .. It was a nice quiet 2hour drive till my destination… And I remembered that about two years ago , on the same highway I had a car accident. Two years ago I found myself backslidden in faith and decided that God’s calling on my life was not for me. I knew God had called me to preach His word but then looking at myself I just thought to myself “it cant be me. I will just lead a good normal God fearing life… but me preaching His word ?? No way… I cant practice it right let alone preach.”. So there I was driving down the highway and all of a sudden I see a dog lying on the middle of the road and I swerve the car at 100kmph to the left and in order to keep from going off the road I swerved to right . The car hit the median , toppled couple of times in every direction , rolling onto the other side of the road where traffic was to proceed in the other direction. Guess what ? I wasn’t wearing my seat belt. But I walked out of that car without a single scratch on my body ! That’s God. Of course the car was totally smashed and people who saw the crash expected to carry out a dead body. But God held me close !! And He kept me safe. I am HIS. It wasn’t to live a regular life that He died for me. No ! To live a Christ centric life is why He shed His blood for me. He ransomed me not to walk a natural life but to walk a supernatural life for His glory.

God changed me to the point where I got down on my knees and said ‘Lord, Here I am’. Willingness to surrender ! Sometimes a lot of us like to hold on to what we have and in addition to things that tie us to the world we like to say ‘Ok Lord tell me …. What can I do for you?’. . God wants to break that attitude this morning . When we say ‘Here I am’ its complete surrender. That’s step 1 !

We read in I Samuel 3 that when the Lord called Samuel , he thought it was Eli calling. His first reaction was ‘Here I am’ and then he ran to Eli. We read in verse 5 , “So he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.”” And this happen three times.

Want to know what step 2 is ? I Samuel 3 : 10, “Now the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel! “ And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”” Step 2 is when we humble ourselves in His presence and let Him speak and we listen !

After having spoken to Eli we read in verse 9 that Samuel went and lay down in his place. He waited for the Lord. And as he waited the Lord spoke. The moment he heard His voice he just answered ,’Speak, for Your servant hears’.

We read in verses 19- 20 , “So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.”

I pray that we surrender our lives totally to Him with complete subjection to His authority over our lives.

God Bless