There is a sense in which the call of God will come to me alone. God does not call a group; He calls individuals to form a group, But the call itself is unmistakably personal. I must respond personally; I cannot send a substitute.
God called Abraham “alone” (Isaiah 51:2, KJV). The lonely call led to lonely experiences: the night walk under the stars, with the promise of universal blessing (Genesis 13:14-18); the lonely altar of prayer for Lot (18:22); and finally the lonely walk to Mount Moriah to sacrifice Isaac (22:5). Yet all of that loneliness was to lead to making him the one in whom “all the families of the earth” (12:3) were to be blessed.
That seems to be a law of the spiritual world as well as the natural: I begin with God alone, I end with many, As George Matheson say, “The brook becomes a sea.” Jesus Christ went to the cross alone, was buried alone, and arose alone. Yet His loneliness was the seed that enabled Him to return with a great army of followers. His generation will continue to widen until it finally engulfs the whole earth.
Let Him lead thee blindfold onwards, Love needs not to know;
Children whom the Father leadeth
Ask not where they go,
Though the path be all unknown
Over moors and mountains lone.
Gerhard Tersteegen
“From this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore” (Hebrews 11:12, NIV).
“Jesus therefore perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force, to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone” (John 6:15).
Daily with the King 