A Young Person Who Makes a Difference! |
Those Who are Prepared to be Useful to God |
Moses' life had three sections of forty years. In the first period of forty years, Moses was in a Pharaoh's palace where “he was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was powerful in his words and works” (v. 22). He didn't stay sleeping on the couch, but he learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians, which was the most advanced at that time. He learned all the subjects to be useful to God because he was chosen by God. You are God's chosen one. Do not think that the subjects which you study in school aren’t valuable to Him. If one day He needs an architect, engineer or another kind of professional, will you be one He will call upon? A meeting hall is not built at random or by coincidence. God wants some for that. If the young people dedicate themselves to their studies, they will get good jobs and it won't be necessary to hire other people to do things for the church. God wants saints like Moses, who was prepared and qualified. We can save a lot of money and time when the saints are in charge of the services. Praise the Lord, there are young people who are not sleeping on the couch, and do not escape from their classes. These ones can be useful to the Lord.
You can be useful to the Lord in two aspects: human and spiritual. In the human aspect, you must study, be diligent and hardworking. In the spiritual aspect, you must use your spirit. Do you know how you become useful to the Lord? In the church meeting, saying: “Yes” and “Amen”. The spiritual aspect is the encouragement to the human aspect. Do you know when are you going to have the desire to study the hard subjects and the big books? Usually you don't have the desire to work hard because it makes you tired and you don't like it. You only can find the desire in the spirit, using the spirit, praying to the Lord, and calling upon His name. Wake up and don't sleep anymore. You can pray to the Lord saying, “Lord, I need to set my mind on the spirit, I need to have a clear mind, which absorbs and learns”. Young one, people’s minds today are racing. Today, the speed of television and video games damages people’s capacity to learn the things; it's too fast. The mind is going at such speed that to stop to read a book is like changing a Ferrari to a cart; it's too hard. Reading speed is like a cart, someone walking, and the speed of a video game on the computer is the same as a Ferrari. People’s minds are so used to the fast speed that it's hard to slow down. All of that shows us that we need to set our mind on the spirit and we need to be those ones who use the spirit to be like Moses, who took good advantage of the first forty years of his life.
In the second period of forty years, he was led to a situation in which he considers himself incapable. After he “graduated” in Egypt Science, he wanted to release his people, but without depending on the Lord. He thought that he was someone who had a “diploma”, that he had graduated. He tried to do something for the Lord, but without results. Acts 7:23-28 describe this situation: “But when he was approaching forty years of age, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. And when he saw one of them being wronged, he defended him, and he avenged him who was being oppressed by striking the Egyptian dead. And he supposed that his brothers understood that God through his hand was giving salvation to them; but they did not understand. And on the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, Men, you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another? But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to do away with me the same way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?’” After that, the period began which God took to work in Moses in another way. After his vessel was enlarged, developed, and made capable in the first forty years in Pharaoh's palace, God needed to show Moses, in the second forty years, that he still needed to depend on God because without God, he could do nothing.
Later, when he was eighty years old, Moses was called and used mightily by God (Acts 7:30-44). This was the beginning of the third period of forty years. By that time, Moses was prepared to be useful to God. This shows us God's way: the Lord wants us to be a proper person and He needs an adequate way to make us useful.
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