Do you know that God has a plan for your life? Before you were born, you were already known by God. He knew exactly what His plan for your life would be. God has a plan for everyone’s life. Take for example Moses. Before Moses was born, God already had a plan for his life. God wanted Moses and it was the will of God that Moses stayed alive. Therefore, God’s hand of protection was upon Moses’ life. God had chosen and appointed Moses to deliver His people from the bondage of Pharaoh and slavery. Although the people of Israel were numerous, there was no one from all the Israelites, who God could use for that specific task, which He already had in mind, namely, the redemption of His people.
What is the story of the birth of Moses?
The children of Israel had become fruitful and mighty in Egypt and Pharaoh feared the people. Therefore Pharaoh put them into slavery. But the more Pharaoh afflicted the children of Israel, the more they multiplied and grew. Pharaoh commanded the midwives to kill all Hebrew males. However, the midwives feared God more than Pharaoh and disobeyed Pharaoh’s command. Then Pharaoh commanded his people to kill every son, who was born, by throwing them in the river. Only the daughters, who were born were allowed to stay alive.
When Moses was born, his mother feared for Moses’ life. In the natural realm, it seemed impossible to keep Moses alive. Since every Hebrew male, who was born at that time, was killed.
The mother of Moses hid Moses for three months. But after three months, she couldn’t hide him anymore.
And so, Moses’ mother took for Moses an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put Moses therein. Then she laid the ark in the flags by the river’s bank.
Moses’s sister stayed at the riverbank, to keep an eye on the ark and to see what happened.
Then the daughter of Pharaoh came to the river to wash. When she saw the ark, she commanded her maid to get it. She opened the ark and saw the little Hebrew boy crying. Pharaoh’s daughter had compassion for him.
Moses’s sister went to Pharaoh’s daughter and suggested getting her a nurse of the Hebrew woman, to nurse the child for her.
The daughter of Pharaoh consented and the sister of Moses called her mother. The daughter of Pharaoh asked her to nurse the child and she would pay her wages. And so it happened that Moses stayed alive and his mother took him and nursed him.
The mother of Moses had to let her son go
But the mother couldn’t keep her son Moses, but she had to let her son Moses go, due to God’s plan for his life. When Moses grew, she went to Pharaoh’s daughter and gave Moses to her. And so Moses became the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. She called him Moses because she drew him out of the water.
Moses killed an Egyptian
One day, when Moses was grown, he went to watch his brothers and looked at their burdens. Moses spied an Egyptian, smiting a Hebrew man. When Moses saw what happened, he looked one way, and then the other way, and when Moses was absolutely sure that no one was watching, Moses slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
When Moses went out on the second day, two Hebrew men strove together. Moses asked the one, who was wronged, why he smote his fellow man. The man answered Moses, who had made him a prince and judged over them. Then he asked Moses if he was going to kill him, just like he killed the Egyptian.
Moses fled for Pharaoh
When Moses heard, that they knew he had killed the Egyptian, Moses became fearful. When Pharaoh heard what Moses did, he sought Moses to kill him. But Moses fled for Pharaoh and dwelled in the land of Midian and sat down at a well.
Moses at the well
There Moses was, a fugitive, sitting at a well in the land of Midian. Moses wanted to help the people of God, who were his brothers. But his brothers didn’t consider him their brother. They didn’t see, that the only thing Moses wanted to do, was protecting them and helping them by killing the Egyptian. But the children of Israel saw Moses as the son of Pharaoh, who stood far away from them.
And there he was, sitting at this well, without housing, without his riches, and probably without food.
Moses didn’t belong anywhere. Moses didn’t belong to his people; the people of Israel, but he also didn’t belong to Pharaoh and the Egyptians anymore.
God had a plan for Moses his life
But Moses didn’t know, that God’s eye was upon him and that God already had a plan for Moses his life. Moses was led by God to the wilderness for a specific purpose. God had led Moses to the land of Midian and He had led him to that specific well.
Moses thought he was alone and that no one looked at him, but that was not true. Because God’s eye was upon him.
And so it happened, that at the well, God looked at him and provided for him. Because the daughters of the priest of Midian came to that same well, where Moses was, to get water to fill their troughs and water their father’s flock.
When the shepherds came, they tried to drive the daughters away, but Moses stood up and helped the daughters and watered their flock.
When the seven daughters went back, they told their father what happened. Their father commanded them to get Moses and to invite him for supper.
Moses came to the house of the priest and the priest gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
God provided in the wilderness
God provided in the wilderness, while in the meantime, Moses was being prepared for that great work. It wasn’t a coincidence that Moses was led to the house of the priest. It wasn’t a coincidence that Moses herded the flock of his father-in-law. Nothing was a coincidence! It was all part of God’s plan.
Moses wasn’t appointed as the ‘deliverer’ and leader of God’s people from the palace. No, Moses had to be taught and prepared in the stillness of the wilderness. Just like his forefather Joseph, who was prepared in prison, in the stillness, for God’s plan for his life to lead a nation and to provide for God’s people during the time of famine.
Moses learned, how to herd and lead the flock. God taught Moses between the sheep. Because God wanted Moses to lead His people out of Egypt, out of slavery, and bring them into the promised land. And so Moses was being prepared between the sheep.
God revealed Himself to Moses
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush (Exodus 3:1-2)
When God saw, that Moses was ready, He revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush.
Moses didn’t see himself as a capable man to lead the people of God out of Egypt. But God considered Moses a capable man.
God knew Moses’ heart. God knew that he wouldn’t have to do it in his own power but in the power of God.
The only thing Moses had to do, was to submit to God and obey His words. Because only in a yielded life and in the weakness of man, the power of God can work to the fullest.
But Moses told Him that he couldn’t speak. Out of love for Moses, God appointed Aaron to be by his side. Moses would represent God and Aaron did the talk.
And so it happened, that God redeemed His people, through Moses, and delivered His people from the oppression and bondage of pharaoh
God has a plan for your life
Sometimes you can enter a period in your life, where your life and future are turned upside down and you don’t see a way out anymore. You can enter a wilderness period in your life, where it seems that God has left you and you feel all alone. It may be a time that you don’t know what to do or how to go on.
There could come a moment in your life, when your life is put on hold. Just like Moses, who didn’t know what to do and how to go on. But fortunately, God knew!
And that is the same for your life. You might not know how to go on or what to do, but God knows.
The only thing that you have to do in this matter is to submit to God and trust Him and to stay at the Living Well; Jesus Christ.
God gives you an expected end
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11)
When you have committed your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, there will always be an expected end. That is the promise that God has given to you. God doesn’t lie, but God speaks the truth! You only have to believe God, submit to God and trust His Word.
Even if it seems that God has left you, God hasn’t left. God would never leave you! Unless you leave Him (Read also: Staying in the hand of God hand).
As long as you stay faithful to God, God will not leave you. Because God has promised that He will never leave you. But you have to believe His words.
For He has said: I will never leave you, nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)
When you experience a wilderness period in your life, the most important thing is, what you do.
Do you complain, cry, grumble, murmur, whine, have pity parties, etc? Or do you thank the Lord? Because you know that God has a plan for your life.
You know that this is all part of God’s plan and that you have to go through the wilderness so that you will be prepared for the work He has for you? Only you are capable of doing that specific task. There is no one else, who can do that. God wants you! And the only way to get you ready is through the wilderness, where there are no distractions.
Being tempted in the wilderness
The authenticity of your faith will be tested in the wilderness, just like Moses, Joseph, Job, John, Jesus, etc.. They were all taught, prepared and tested in the wilderness (period).
God knows what is inside of you. Even if you don’t know it yourself. He knows that in your weakness, His greatness shall be revealed.
But it all depends on whether you are able to submit yourself to Him and give Him full control over your life. Do you completely trust Him? Because only if you completely trust the Lord, you can surrender your life to Him, and give Him control over your life. So that in every situation you shall have peace. Because you know He is with you, He takes care of you, protects you, guides you, and teaches you and provides for you.
What do you do in the wilderness?
What do you do, when you enter a wilderness period in your life? First of all, stop complaining and whining! Because that is an abomination to the Lord. The more you whine and complain, the deeper you sink in your sorrows and you will never come to the place, where God wants you to be and never reach your destiny.
What you have to do is to feed your spirit instead of your flesh:
- Take the Bible, spend time in the Word of God, and study the Word
- Listen to Him
- Pray and fast
- Speak in new tongues (to build yourself up and to become spiritually strong)
- Be thankful and give thanks to the Lord
- Bring every negative thought; every thought that brings agitation and anxiety in your mind, into captivity of Jesus Christ; the Word
- Speak and repeat the prophecies, which are spoken over your life, on a regular basis
In the wilderness, God prepares you and makes you ready through His Word and Holy Spirit. He prepares you for the work He has for you.
Thank God for the time, you may spend with Him. Appreciate this precious time, because it will never come back again. Build yourself up in your most holy faith, so that God’s plan for your life shall be fulfilled and God the Father and Jesus Christ be glorified.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
