FAITH CAPSULE: God is not moved by man’s title but by man’s task.

1 Samuel 2

What anyone calls you is not what matters as compared to what you call yourself or what you answer to. It is written concerning Elizabeth, “Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.” (Luke 1:36)After Jesus, there is none like John in the days of Bible. Yet, his mother, Elizabeth was called barren because people did not know that God was working according to His time. What are you being called? Barren, poor…? Answer to what you want to be and not what they see in you. The Barren eventually became the mother of a giant man of God. It is written in, “Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.” (1 Samuel 3:1)At a time when Prophets, priests, Bishops, pastors and every other kind of title holders in the land of Israel were not hearing from God, a little boy called, “The Boy Samuel” heard from God. God is not a respecter of man. With God, nothing is impossible. God does not move by man’s title but man’s task. The Boy Samuel, as a child his task was that of a household name minister and he was putting on what prophets, bishops and pastor were supposed to be putting on. As a child nothing counts before him but his ministration before the Lord. As child he was not overwhelmed by man’s given title neither was he being carried away by programs all over the land and the Bible recorded that, “But Samuel ministered before the LORD, even as a child, wearing a linen ephod. Moreover his mother used to make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.” (1 Samuel 2:18-19)What people called Samuel could have denied him but God device His own way to deny name calling. God knows what we are to be and He will place us in the right location that will deny every denying agent from us. The Bible testifies, “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7)Let them say or call you what they see in you by the limitation of what they can see. But it is important to know who you are and who you answer to. The Boy Samuel was yet to be identified as a prophet before he started hearing from God. Encourage yourself in the Lord and you shall live to the fulfillment of your destiny in Christ Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you in all that He created you for.