Even before we were were born God had a purpose and a plan for our lives. We had value and worth in Him even before we ever did anything. God has big thoughts for us. He wants to use us to accomplish His purpose and plan for our life. The most exciting part for us, is discovering what God created us to do and become. He places passions in our lives for a reason. He gives us dreams and interests for a reason. We are all good at different things for a reason.
Frequently, the only thing that limits God's plan for our lives, is us thinking we aren't good enough. Us thinking he doesn't know what he is doing. Or us deciding that we couldn't ever actually fulfill all the awesome things God places in our hearts.
In the bible, great men had trouble with the idea that God could work through them. They felt insignificant or incapable of accomplishing big things because of their past, or their insecurities. Then God came along, and reminded them of all the things he placed in their hearts, and all the thoughts and dreams he had already dreamed for them. Moses was a great example of something we all go through, the fear of what might happen if we allow God to take us everywhere he wants to go.
Exodus 3:1-12
The Message (MSG)
Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of God appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn’t burn up.
Moses said, “What’s going on here? I can’t believe this! Amazing! Why doesn’t the bush burn up?”
God saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
He said, “Yes? I’m right here!”
God said, “Don’t come any closer. Remove your sandals from your feet. You’re standing on holy ground.”
Then he said, “I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.”
Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
“The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I’ve seen for myself how cruelly they’re being treated by the Egyptians. It’s time for you to go back: I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Moses answered God, “But why me? What makes you think that I could ever go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
I'll be with you,” God said. “And this will be the proof that I am the one who sent you: When you have brought my people out of Egypt, you will worship God right here at this very mountain.”
God's plan for us is big, and sometimes a little intimidating. It is supposed to be. God doesn't want us to be able to accomplish it without him. But he does promise us that he will be with us in the midst of everything. He will be there to prove he sent us and help us accomplish big things in his name. What are some things God has put on your heart to do? Today is the day to get started! He will be there with you in the midst of it!
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