Discerning God's Call

After David suggested on Sunday that we each ask God if He wants us to support local disciple making by moving to East Lake/Gate City, I began to do that on Monday. As I talked with God about this I had to first get past my fears and doubts. After sharing those with Him, I then put them aside the best I could, reminding myself that in the past when God has called me to a mission or ministry He has given me the peace and joy to go with the calling. So I ask the question, “How do I know if You are calling me to this?” “What can I do discern You will?” I then seem to hear: “Those I send, I’ve already prepared. Look at My servant Moses.” God prepared Moses before He called him by raising him in pharaoh’s court. As a child he played in the palace. He experienced the humanity of pharaoh and knew he was only a man; not a god nor divine in any way; a man with great power but still only a man. Moses also had a love for his people. He had maintained his relationship with his people, God’s people, even though he was living in pharaoh’s household. He killed an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite. He tried to convince two Israelites not fight with each other. God prepare Moses for the times the Israelites would gripe and complain and turn against him by putting a love for them in his heart. There are probably other preparations that God made in Moses that I’m not aware of but He prepared him long before He called him.


Monday night I again came to God with my question. “How do I know if You are calling me to this?” The next response I seem to hear was: “To those I call I give the vision. Look at My servant Moses.” When God called Moses He didn’t say, “I want you to leave your flocks, your home, your family and go to Egypt.” What He said was, “I’ve heard My people’s cry and I want you to go and get them and bring them to Me.” God doesn’t send someone to a place; He sends them to a vision. So going is not about going to a place but about seeing God’s vision for His people in that place.

By not means do I think I have the final answer yet. But I believe God has given me guidance for my discerning of His will so I thought I’d share that with you.