My two devotionals for today overlapped a bit, or at least they did in my mind. One verse came from Matthew 12:13, “Then he (Jesus) said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.” The second verse was from Isaiah 6:8, “’Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then said I, ‘Here am I; send me.’”
Both of these verses, while in very different contexts, require faith. If we listen to the undercurrent of God’s voice in our lives, we realize that God is not pleading for our help but is asking for people to stretch out to him in faith for personal restoration and through that restoration of those around us.
When we stretch out in faith towards our source of life, we become filled with that source and can affect others by supplying for their needs. The question is are we stretching enough?
neumatikos 