God Doesn't Call The Equipped

Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend.

Exodus 4:10-12 (NASB)

10 Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since Thou hast spoken to Thy servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."

11 And the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

12 "Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say."

There is a saying that goes something like this: God does not call the equipped...God equips those He calls. So many times in our lives we know that God is calling us to greater things, but we find ourselves operating as Moses did in Exodus 4. We are filled with excuses for why God cannot use us in a greater capacity. For Moses, his excuse was that he had problems speaking and in his mind that was more than enough to disqualify him from the call God was placing on his life.

All too often we enter into the assumption that because I am not good at something, because I have no experience in a particular matter that God would not choose to use me in that capacity. The Bible shows us that God has never chosen His servants based on their resume. David was a shepherd boy certainly not the pedigree for a king. Elisha the prophet was plowing the fields with a team of oxen. Peter the chosen vessel of God on the day of Pentecost was a career fisherman. None of these would have been our choices for the role that God was calling them to. They had no experience in the matters at hand, yet that is exactly who God chose. He called them, He equipped them and He worked through them in powerful ways.

Today I want to challenge you to simply say “yes” to the call of God on your life. Trust not in your own abilities, but acknowledge the equipping power of God as it comes to bear on your life.

Until next Monday, may God's richest blessings be yours this week.

Carl