Back To Ephesians 2:10

What is it that I was created to do and what are the things prepared for me?

More likely, it's going to be a portfolio of serving roles. If I stop long enough to listen carefully to God and His call in my life, it's not likely that He has been using all these years in my life just for some kind of drifting period. Instead, it was preparation.

If you look at Acts chapter 7, it gives us an incredible fly over of Moses' life. In today's language, we would say he spent his first forty years in Egypt getting his MBA and working his way up through corporate Egypt.

Then at age 40, God tapped him on the heart. He looked up from his desk and, for the first time, he walked out into his community and saw the pain and suffering and the needs around him through a totally different lens.

The passion that God had put deep in his heart to free God's people from their bondage just exploded. We know that he reacted wrongly and he had to go out into the wilderness. In that wilderness experience, his halftime experience, God detoxed him from some of the baggage from his first half. It gave him a time of solitude and reflection to think and listen and then, finally, he encountered God in the burning bush. It was there he got his assignment from God. It is not a coincidence that that's where we get our assignment.

The big deal is not affluence. It's availability. It's stopping to make eye contact with God and to get our assignments from Him. Then we must make eye contact with the world.

It's going to cost us something. There is an ancient writer who wrote this one compelling line – "God doesn't need me, He wants me.".

The reason a life of significance always involves risk and sacrifice is because, frankly, God doesn't need me (or you, for that matter) to show up for His plan to succeed. He wants me. He wants you. He wants to move each of us from the things that have captivated us to a place where we are satisfied to partner with Him in order to change the world one person at a time.

It's going to demand not only the eye contact with God but also the heart contact to get the mission accomplished. Then it will take the courage and the faith to step out. But whatever we do, we must make sure we are fulfilling His mission, His assignment for our lives.

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Unlimited Partnership by Lloyd Reeb and Bill Wellons