Devon GillespieOwner, Perfect Competition LLC · Author of Growth Series

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13 Nov 2022 · 4 min

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In this spoken devotional, the narrator adopts the voice of a divine summons, urging both women and men to respond to God’s call to aid the oppressed. The monologue describes the pervasive suffering of people in slums, mines, mills, fields, markets, and city streets, emphasizing that no place is untouched by darkness and despair. It pleads for a messenger to break the chains of oppression, and then volunteers themselves, acknowledging their own frailty—“dust and ashes”—yet asking God to use their weakness to magnify divine power. The speaker seeks purification from selfish desire, a rise to higher resolve, and a transformation into holiness, requesting instruction, command, and obedience to God’s will.

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The voice of God is calling to women and to men. The voice once heard in Zion resounds on earth again. Whom shall I send to succor my people in their need? Whom shall I send to loose the bonds of oppression? Send me, send me. Shame and grief. I hear my people crying in slum and mine and mill. No field or mart is silent, no city street is still. I see my people falling in darkness and despair. Whom shall I send to shatter the fetters which they bear? We heed, O God, your summons. And answer. Here are we. Send us upon your errand. Let us your servants be. Our strength is dust and ashes, our years a passing hour, but you can use our weakness to magnify your power. From ease and plenty save us. From plight of place also purge us of low desire, lift us to high resolve. Take us. And make us holy. Teach us your will and life. Speak. And behold, we answer. Command, and we obey.