All of us at some point of life may ask the question ""What on earth am I here for?". The Bible gives a good answers to this question....."to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10). God created us for a prearranged mission. You're a conscript, not a volunteer. Each one of us have our own unique calling that God has planned for us. And it's a mistake to try and duplicate somebody else's calling. We cannot be another Mother Teresa.
Remember Moses? God calls him to deliver Israel from Egypt but he tries doing it in his own way. Killing an enemy to save an ally's life, he winds up a forty year as a fugitive. When God called Moses to deliver His people from Egypt, Moses decided to do it his own way. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, but instead of consulting God he took matters into his own hands. The Bible says, 'He looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand' (Exodus 2:12).
Obviously Moses was more concerned with the opinions of people than how God felt about it. So God had to teach Moses that his orders came from Him. After Moses dug a hole and tried to hide the work of his flesh, God allowed it to be exposed. He showed Moses that by doing things his own way he couldn't keep a single soldier buried in the sand. Whereas, by doing things God's way, a whole army could be buried in the depths of the Red Sea. So today, make up your mind to do it God's way.
Serving God cannot be best defined by Frank Sinatra's song called, “I did it my way.” Moses did it his own way and not God’s way. The result was forty years of exile. After living in the wilderness and learning his lesson he returns to do God's will - God's way. All of us, not just ordained ministers, are called to do God's work God's way.
Be rest assured that you are Highly Favored, Deeply Loved and Greatly Blessed by the Lord. Continue to be faithful to the calling that God has placed in your heart. I am always encouraged with a quote from Mother Teresa that says "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Be Blessed.
Remember Moses? God calls him to deliver Israel from Egypt but he tries doing it in his own way. Killing an enemy to save an ally's life, he winds up a forty year as a fugitive. When God called Moses to deliver His people from Egypt, Moses decided to do it his own way. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, but instead of consulting God he took matters into his own hands. The Bible says, 'He looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand' (Exodus 2:12).
Obviously Moses was more concerned with the opinions of people than how God felt about it. So God had to teach Moses that his orders came from Him. After Moses dug a hole and tried to hide the work of his flesh, God allowed it to be exposed. He showed Moses that by doing things his own way he couldn't keep a single soldier buried in the sand. Whereas, by doing things God's way, a whole army could be buried in the depths of the Red Sea. So today, make up your mind to do it God's way.
Serving God cannot be best defined by Frank Sinatra's song called, “I did it my way.” Moses did it his own way and not God’s way. The result was forty years of exile. After living in the wilderness and learning his lesson he returns to do God's will - God's way. All of us, not just ordained ministers, are called to do God's work God's way.
Be rest assured that you are Highly Favored, Deeply Loved and Greatly Blessed by the Lord. Continue to be faithful to the calling that God has placed in your heart. I am always encouraged with a quote from Mother Teresa that says "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Be Blessed.
5 comments:
True, but this must not be confused with earning one's salvation through good works. Man was originally created to only do that which is good, and the fact that sin came into the picture does not change that.
Reubz: You are precisely right. But the problem lies when we are saved, we still stay on standby mode...instead of finding God's will and run the race of faith.
When a person goes on 'standby mode' after he claims to be 'saved', it leaves room for question on whether he is truly saved, or was it merely just an emotional response at a specific point of time. True salvation, if you come to think of it, must precede a genuine repentence and a change of heart for the things that are of God.
Again, that itself is not saying that we are saved by works, but merely the fact that salvation continually realigns us back into the original purpose that God had created us in the first place.
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