Callings And Completed Plans

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” – Exodus 3:9-12

Yesterday we talked about how God keeps His promises. Today, we’re going to continue talking about what we can learn from the life of Moses and discuss two more truths about God that we can gather from the book of Exodus.

In addition to remembering that God confirms His promises, as we discussed yesterday, we must also realize that God calls His people. You can’t be everything that you want to be, but you can be everything that God calls you to be. God handpicked you and God handmade you to fulfill a certain calling in your life.

Søren Kierkegaard said, “At each man’s birth there comes into being an eternal vocation for him, expressly for him. To be true to himself in relation to this eternal vocation is the highest thing a man can practice.” One of the biggest lies of the devil is that God only calls ministers or church workers. But that’s just not the case. God calls all of His people; therefore we need to be listening and ready to hear His call.

Finally, we need to rejoice that God completes His plan. God had a plan. He puts Moses through forty years in a desert so He can turn right around and have him lead the children of Israel for forty more years through the desert. Think about this. God didn’t need Moses. God could have delivered the people Himself with a snap of His fingers. He could have given the task to angels who He knows would have carried the job out perfectly. He probably certainly could have found someone more willing to do it, but He chooses an eighty-year-old man who thought he was washed up and used a six-hundred-year-old promise.

Now, He doesn’t tell Moses how He was going to pull it all off. Isn’t that the way it always goes? God rarely tells us what He’s going to do. He just tells us what He wants us to do. It is His job to show us how to do it. His job is to come up with a plan. Our job is to do our part in the plan.

You are a piece in God’s puzzle. You have a place in God’s plan, but God never expects you to carry out that plan for Him. He is going to carry out that plan through you.

Dear Lord, thank you for the encouragement that I can take from the story of Moses. You were so faithful in his life, and therefore I know you will also be faithful in mine. I pray that you would remind me of the calling you have placed on my life and that I will rest in the fact that you have a plan for that calling and that your plan will be completed in your sovereignty. In Jesus’ name, amen.