God prepares us before he calls us. Often we are born with the gifts we will need, and our experience births in us a desire to work in the area of those gifts. Some of us will have an overwhelming desire to DO the work, but no idea HOW to do it. Have you ever had a desire to do something great for the Lord, but no idea HOW?
At 40, Moses knew he was in a good position to help the enslaved Hebrews. He was one of them by blood and birth, but had all the advantages of having been raised in the Egyptian palace: he spoke the language, knew the religion, the food, the customs. He was a perfect liaison to work with the two sides to free the Hebrews.
So he got involved. First, he interfered with an Egyptian and a Hebrew fighting. He killed the Egyptian. The next day, he found two Hebrews fighting and tried to get them to work it out. They turned on him:
“Who made you a ruler and judge over us?” Exodus 2:14.
(Answer? NO ONE.)
The men called Moses a murderer, and he fled the nation. For the next FORTY YEARS, he must have felt his life was a waste. The would-be international diplomat was now a fugitive shepherd in the middle of nowhere.
But God was not finished with Moses. The forty years in the wilderness were critical. God was preparing him. He was teaching him humility, servanthood, and devotion to the God he may not have grown up worshipping. Then God came to Moses at the burning bush. At 80, God officially made him “a ruler and judge” over His people—forty years after the question was first asked.
Do you have passions and talents you yearn to use for the Lord? Be patient. Trust God’s timing. “Be faithful in the small things” and God will make you ruler over big things, Matthew 25:23.
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