FAITH CAPSULE: The challenges over your life are not evidence that He has withdrawn from seeing you through.
Genesis 37
God’s calling is like a puzzle which needs to be put together before getting a true picture. At the time of Abraham’s calling, the command to go and the blessing for going did not come with details. At his calling, God did not layout, the challenges of temptation and confrontation which were ahead of Abraham. God commanded Abraham “…Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3). God’s calling never short of His backing! Has He called you and not backed you up? The challenges and temptations that come your way in answering the calling over your life are not evidence that He has withdrawn from seeing you through.
When God calls, nothing counts except for the called to fully answer with obedience. God will call regardless of position or age of the one called. Abraham was seventy-five when he responded to God’s calling. In His calling, neither old age nor young age can limit God from calling. The calling of God can be likened to attempting to put thousands of pieces of a puzzle together for a complete picture to emerge. However, when in the process of putting the puzzle together, any missing piece of puzzle will deliver incomplete picture.
Joseph’s dream was confirmation of God’s divine agenda for his life. In the dream there was no indication of how dream was going to be. Twice he dreamt and twice he was rebuke because it was a puzzle to his family. When Joseph had the second dream, “…he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.” (Genesis 37:10-11) Joseph’s steps into the journey that he dreamt started at age seventeen and were not complete until he was thirty years of age. The journey was full of challenges and temptations. Indeed and in truth it was a puzzle that could not have become a complete picture if any of the pieces was misplaced. It is only you that knows the dream that you have had or the calling that He has placed upon your life. Focus on Him, He will see you through. Remember, the puzzle will not become a complete picture until all the pieces come together.
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver and preserve you as you move in the direction of your calling.