Time in the Wilderness Defines the Harvest

Exodus 2:11

One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

Moses had a calling on his life and he knew it.  He just did not know how to handle it.  Although he was tuned in to his calling, he was not spiritually prepared yet to handle the assignment.  God took Moses through 40 years in the wilderness to prepare him for his God-appointed place among the Israelites.

We are all called to lead our families spiritually.  We are all called to lead others spiritually in some manner.  When the fullness of the calling hits, we soon realize how ill equipped we are for the work and how ill prepared those around us are to receive us.

At this point when we have received God's calling and are responding to it, God begins to do His good work in us.   Then something strange happens.  We have the vision and a very clear understanding of what needs to be done, but like Moses, we feel like we have been left out in the wilderness.  It seems as if God is ignoring us.

In actuality, the opposite is true.  God is fully and perfectly engaged in our lives.  His plan is to discipline us so that we are focused on Him and not on our vision.  When our focus is corrected, the fruit of the vision is released.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your perfectly patient hand in our lives.  We thank You for taking us through our wilderness experiences in order to draw us closer to You.  We bless the name of Jesus who carries us through our discouragement.  We praise His Holy Name as He releases the fruit of our lives when we are mature enough in our relationship with Him to handle the harvest.  We ask all these things in the name of the Lord Over All, Jesus Christ.