Fasting Day 27 of 40 | Fifth Friday of Lent
“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.” Acts 7:30
Have you sensed a call from God? Yet you find yourself feeding sheep?
“Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs… God sent him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared and told Moses to go and bring forth His people… In the beginning Moses realized that he was the man to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in the individual aspect, but he was not the man for the work until he had learned communion with God. We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and we start to do the thing, then comes something equivalent to the forty years in the wilderness, as if God had ignored the whole thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged God comes back and revives the call… We have to learn that our individual effort for God is an impertinence; our individuality is to be rendered incandescent by a personal relationship to God.”
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) in My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers Publications Association Limited, 1963) excerpt from reading for October 13.
God did not need Moses to do anything for Him. God wanted Moses to deliver the people with Him. What is God calling you to do with Him?
God, I surrender to your training and discipline. Revive my call. Amen.
Practice Lent to deepen your walk with God. Decide what disciplines you will continue in life after Lent to stay responsive to His call.