Isaiah sees God in the temple, experiences his unworthiness, gets cleansed, and then when God asks 'Whom shall I send?' Isaiah volunteers: 'Here am I, send me.' It's commitment made after knowing the cost, not before.
Isaiah immediately learns what he's committing to: he will preach and people will not listen, will not understand, will not repent. He'll be ineffective. And he still says: send me.
I've made commitments before fully understanding what I was committing to, and I've walked away when the actual cost became clear. But Isaiah's example - he sees the cost first, and he commits anyway - that's different. That's the kind of commitment I want to make.
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