Today, lets take a break from Egypt to the Promised Land. We will get back to our Journey in a couple of weeks.
I was listening today, with Emily, to a Tom Brady documentary (she loves Tom). I have no idea the religious or spiritual beliefs of Brady, but I can tell you one thing. He was called to be a football quarterback. That has been his life for 30 plus years and he is the best of all time.
Do you have dreams for your life? Are you living what God has called you to live? Has there always been a pull on your life to do something but you thought that because it didn’t involve getting people “saved” it was a second rate calling or not a calling at all?
There are several potential answers to those questions. I can’t begin to tell you what your dreams are or if they are God’s destiny for you. That’s between you and God. Believe it or not, He could be calling you to be a quarterback. There is a way to tell whether the life you are living right now is where God actually wants you.
Take a few minutes right now and look at your circle of influence. How many people are in your circle that you could influence with your talents, money, and time? I mean, how many of those people would be influenced by you? Now ask yourself, how many people are in my circle that I really care enough about to give of my talents, money, and time? There are plenty of people in our circles that struggle with different things, but how many burden us enough to give of ourselves? Many of them we pass each day and pay no attention, or we tell them we are praying and never think about them again.
If we are not giving of ourselves every day, it’s very possible we are somewhere in life where we should not be. God not only wants us to give of ourselves, but he wants to increase our influence and increase our talents, money and time so we have more to give.
Jesus had compassion for the people that had come to hear him teach but had no food. Saving people is not always about making sure they have fire insurance for later. Most times it’s helping them get away from the heat they are experiencing right now. The disciples wanted to send them away. Jesus wanted to expand the disciples’ influence and he asked what they had to give. Someone had a little bread and a few fish. Jesus wants all your talents, money and time so he can bless it, break it and let YOU give it away.
The disciples had no idea how they could help so many people with such a great need and Jesus showed them that if you give it all to me (no matter how small) you can take care of more people than you can even imagine and have more left over than you had in the beginning.
If our burden for people is not larger than we can handle by ourselves because of the number of people or our lack of talent, money or time; we may not be following our true destiny.
You may want to be a doctor, lawyer, school teacher, nurse or farmer. You may even want to be a quarterback. Give everything that you have to Jesus and let him bless it and break it. You will find that you will be “saving” more people that you ever thought possible. The leftovers will be great, too!
Bill
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