This writing may be new to some but serves as a reminder to others. One of the biggest issues Sons and Daughters deal with is the full assurance that their past has not been a waste of time causing guilt and regret. Are you and I focused on “missed opportunities” of the past when we should forget them and focus on the here and now? Am I focused too much on my age because the world says I am past my prime? Who determines my “prime” and my ministry?
It is recorded by Moses, moved by The Holy Spirit of Glory, in Exodus chapter 7:
1 So the LORD said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”
6 Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the LORD commanded them, so they did. 7 And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Was the first eighty years of Moses’ life a waste? What about Aaron? No, both were being prepared for their specific ministries even though Moses had been content with tending sheep: (Exodus 3: 1) Moses was tending the flock of Jethro when FATHER appeared in the burning bush.
Now is the time to embrace our individual callings and jettison the past. We need to allow The Holy Spirit to energize each of us and embrace the here and now. Quit looking at the circumstances and look into the “Burning Bush”, be devoted!
Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2 Peter chapter 1:
5 So devote yourselves to lavishly supplementing your faith with goodness,
and to goodness add understanding,
6 and to understanding add the strength of self-control,
and to self-control add patient endurance,
and to patient endurance add godliness,
7 and to godliness add mercy toward your brothers and sisters,
and to mercy toward others add unending love.
8 Since these virtues are already planted deep within, and you possess them in abundant supply, they will keep you from being inactive or fruitless in your pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ more intimately. 9 But if anyone lacks these things, he is blind, constantly closing his eyes to the mysteries of our faith, and forgetting his innocence—for his past sins have been washed away.
10 For this reason, beloved ones, be eager to confirm and validate that God has invited you to salvation and claimed you as his own. If you do these things, you will never stumble. 11 As a result, the Kingdom’s gates will open wide to you as GOD choreographs your triumphant entrance into the Eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.
This writing is exploding on the inside of me and let it do the same for you. FATHER will not allow us to stumble for HE has provided and deposited everything we need to fulfill our callings. Some of those virtues have been lying dormant and it is time to water them with The Word above and expect them to spring forth quickly with full assurance. We will not stumble thus we cannot fail!
You need to reread this writing until your spirit leaps with joy unspeakable.