Brother Jimmy Swaggart wrote using Moses as an example: God’s calling was not in the comforts of a palace even though he was a possible king if he chose to abandon his spiritual root. True calling was in the back side of a desert, not in the place of comfort!

Turning aside to see the burning bush Moses had to reprioritize temporarily, abandoning the sheep (his purpose for being there in the first place) to see the attraction of the burning bush (Exod. 3:1-4). The first instruction when he heard the caller was a call to reverence, a call to humility; no place for self-promotion

And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here am I. God said, Do not come near; put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. Also He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Exodus 3:3-6 AMPC

If you believe God has called you, your response should be to bow down in humility before Him.

• Paul had one of the greatest ministries the world has ever known, yet he said of himself, ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief’ (1 Timothy 1:15 KJV). When people told Paul how great he was, he stayed humble by remembering what he used to be
• When the Angel of the Lord told an ageing Zacharias he would father a son named John the Baptist, Zacharias was paralysed in fear and didn’t come out in time, to the point where people wondered if he was dead.
• Ezekiel had a book in the Bible named after him. That’s heady stuff! Yet when God called him, he collapsed on the floor and God had to tell him to get up, saying, ‘Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee’ (Ezekiel 2:1 KJV).
• When John the Revelator saw Jesus standing in the midst of the seven churches, he wrote, ‘When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead’ (Revelation 1:17 KJV).

Can you see a pattern emerging here? Paul writes, ‘Walk…with…lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering’ (Ephesians 4:1-2 NKJV). Think about the phrase ‘walking with God’. Whose company are you in? The charlatans that fill the screens and podiums today? Or God’s! Can you think of a higher calling? And the higher your calling, the lower you must become in your own estimation. Humility doesn’t mean thinking less of yourself; it means thinking of yourself less. Jesus summed it up like this: ‘Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ Today, practise humility.”—Culled from Word For Today

Selah

Pastor Afolabi Oladele