IT’S GO TIME and IT’S BEAUTIFUL
Our season begins tonight. It is Go Time and It is Beautiful. You might ask me. How can I say this with so many unknowns and challenges facing the world right now. Is it Beautiful?
Isaiah 5 seems in many ways to be describing our current world.
“You are doomed! You call evil good and call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter. You are doomed! You think you are wise, so very clever. You are doomed! Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks! But for just a bribe you let the guilty go free, and you keep the innocent from getting justice. So now, just as straw and dry grass shrivel and burn in the fire, your roots will rot and your blossoms will dry up and blow away, because you have rejected what the Lord Almighty, Israel’s holy God, has taught us. The Lord is angry with his people and has stretched out his hand to punish them. The mountains will shake, and the bodies of those who die will be left in the streets like rubbish. Yet even then the Lord’s anger will not be ended, but his hand will still be stretched out to punish.”
Isaiah 5:20-25 GNT
As millions of followers of Jesus Christ across the earth cry out to God, does the next chapter Isaiah 6 give us hope or more fear that we are following the sand path as the Israelites? Chapter 6 begins with Isaiah surprisingly seeing the Lord!
“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on his throne, high and exalted, and his robe filled the whole Temple.” Isaiah 6:1 GNT
Wow! What next?
“Then I heard the Lord say, “Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?”
Would you hesitate if your Coach calls on you to get in the game? Isaiah didn’t!
“I answered, “I will go! Send me!” So he told me to go and give the people this message:
IT’S GO TIME AGAIN! I believe God is once again asking “Whom Shall I Send?” Isaiah 6:8 is such a powerful scripture. It paints a script that brings chills to anyone with a pulse. So I googled “What is the meaning behind Isaiah 6:8?” The result:
The use of “Here I am Lord” reveals purpose. Isaiah was saying he was here on earth for a specific purpose and he wanted that purpose to be the Lord’s. As he immediately followed it with “send me,” he didn’t wait to hear what the Lord would say but wrote a blank check to the Lord, a universal yes to God’s plan for him.
As a college basketball coach, this is exactly the kind of player I seek to recruit. Athletes that have a “It’s Go Time” mentality and their eyes and heart focused on bringing God Glory!
Let’s look at another time in the Bible that Go Time is specified. In Act 3 the Gate Beautiful in mentioned.
Is there a more important Time than the Return of Jesus Christ?
Ezekiel 44:1–3, which says that the gate (the gate also called Beautiful “toward the east…shall be shut…because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore, it shall be shut. It is for the prince;…he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate.” Since Jesus, the God of Israel, had already entered through that gate (Palm Sunday), it will remain shut until Jesus the King returns.
We look forward to that day. The day only God knows. The day God tells Jesus, “It’s Go Time”, but until then it is our “Go Time”!
The word Beautiful in Acts 3 actually means “The Perfect Time”. God will send His Son Jesus back for His bride at the perfect time, yeah and that is Beautiful!
I decided to come up with my own definition of “Go Time” – not when it’s easy, not when it’s safe, not when you feel like it, when our God says Go! Go Hard, Heart and Soul! Our power source and guide, the Holy Spirit, does not work for us, we work for Him! Fact is, together we are on a “Go Hard, or you won’t “Go Home” mission to Bring Jesus Glory!
I will end this Beautiful Blog with a little song line of my own.
Catch me up into your Glory, may All my life be your Story
Catch me up into your story, may all my life be for your Glory
Cause It’s Go Time!
That’s Beautiful!