Hope In A Desert (Repost)

A previous post from my 31 Days Of Hope series...I needed a little kick-in-the-butt reminder today.

"So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up."
Galatians 6:9 NLT

Moses had things pretty good. He was a prince living in a palace in Egypt, he had a lot of power and influence, and had access to pretty much anything he wanted. One moment changed it all. God had a greater calling. What could be greater than living a life of royalty?

Living a life fulfilling your God-given purpose.

God had a different purpose for Moses' life. Moses went from the palace to the desert. There he met his future wife and began living out his new life working for his father-in-law. What a change of scenery! Definitely in humble circumstances, but that is exactly when God called him. Not when he was living the high life in the palace, but when he was faithfully working in the desert.

You can read about it in Exodus 3. Moses was tending to his father-in-law's flock when he sees a bush that is on fire yet not burning up. When Moses goes closer to investigate, God reveals Himself and gives Moses his marching orders (so to speak)...he was to go back to the land of Egypt and deliver the Israelites from the bondage of slavery. God was going to make him into a great leader, but not in the way Moses probably had envisioned it.

There was a purpose for the many years that Moses spent as a shepherd. He learned what it meant to work hard, which made him relatable to the people he would soon be leading. He learned how to survive in the desert, which would be helpful for the many years the Israelites would wander in the wilderness. God knew that it would take a special person to deliver His people from Egypt...a man of great character and experience. Those qualities don't come easy and don't come overnight.

Are you in a desert season of life? Be faithful where you are and with what you've been given. Let God use this time to mold you and shape you so that you can be ready when He calls you into your God-given purpose.

Failure

‎"I have learned that I will fail more than I succeed, but that failure is not fatal, nor in any way final. I will race time and again for the finish line only to stumble upon my own two feet and find myself with a face full of dirt.

By grace I will wake tomorrow and I will try it again."

-Caleb Magnino
http://calebmagnino.com/

Routine

It's very easy to get caught up in the mundane routine of the day to day. This was a very fitting reminder for me today as I realized I ran a whole dryer cycle with no clothes in it...

"Somehow or another, [we] feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to [our] faith. Don't begrudge the routine things of life; see every activity as an opportunity to serve God with your whole heart."

From "Starting Your Day Right"
by Joyce Meyer