Sometimes our gifting and callings seem hidden from us – we don’t see them.
Moses was the most humble man on earth, the Bible says. Because of that, God was able to use him to lead a million people out of horrible bondage. It was a huge feat.
Moses didn’t see that coming. He just thought of himself as a shepherd. At one time he wanted to free his Israeli brethren from slavery but had failed.[i] So he ran away and just survived – found a job and a family.
But the thing he’d wanted to do so long ago was really planted there by God. It’s how he went about it that needed to change.
So God let him go off and learn survival skills in the desert, and let him learn about life by living it. It doesn’t really even appear as if Moses spent those 40 years building his relationship with God. He was just living.
Then it was time. Moses was taking his flock of sheep through the desert one day. God had heard His people in Egypt crying out to be delivered from their slavery.
But even when God told Moses what He wanted him to do,[ii] Moses didn’t see where he fit in. Moses brought up some seemingly legitimate fears and reasons for God to choose someone else.
In response God told Moses all the ways He would help him. Still, Moses didn’t want to go. But God did not release him from his responsibility. In the end Moses did what God asked him to do. Yay!
Do you see any parallels between this story and your life? Are there things you’ve wanted to do in the past that somehow never came about? Ask yourself why. Ask God to help you discern what, when, if, how and when He wants you to do those things. He’ll tell you. He has good things in store for you!
Psalm 16:11, NKJV: “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
[i] Exodus 2:11-14
[ii] Exodus 3
Moses was the most humble man on earth, the Bible says. Because of that, God was able to use him to lead a million people out of horrible bondage. It was a huge feat.
Moses didn’t see that coming. He just thought of himself as a shepherd. At one time he wanted to free his Israeli brethren from slavery but had failed.[i] So he ran away and just survived – found a job and a family.
But the thing he’d wanted to do so long ago was really planted there by God. It’s how he went about it that needed to change.
So God let him go off and learn survival skills in the desert, and let him learn about life by living it. It doesn’t really even appear as if Moses spent those 40 years building his relationship with God. He was just living.
Then it was time. Moses was taking his flock of sheep through the desert one day. God had heard His people in Egypt crying out to be delivered from their slavery.
But even when God told Moses what He wanted him to do,[ii] Moses didn’t see where he fit in. Moses brought up some seemingly legitimate fears and reasons for God to choose someone else.
In response God told Moses all the ways He would help him. Still, Moses didn’t want to go. But God did not release him from his responsibility. In the end Moses did what God asked him to do. Yay!
Do you see any parallels between this story and your life? Are there things you’ve wanted to do in the past that somehow never came about? Ask yourself why. Ask God to help you discern what, when, if, how and when He wants you to do those things. He’ll tell you. He has good things in store for you!
Psalm 16:11, NKJV: “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
[i] Exodus 2:11-14
[ii] Exodus 3
