LET ME PEEK THE ENDING

How many of us have a dream? Have thought about our future and have felt this kinda urgency to complete something, OR to leave a legacy? Let’s make some notes.

I was reading this passage and it brought to mind how i felt back when i was 15/16/17 and wondering about what college to go to, what major to choose, and even what career God was trying to guide me to.

I knew 3 things.

  1. I wanted to make money so i needed to pick the right major.
    1. My family has been poor most of my life, so I knew that i needed to keep going in my schooling in order to pull my family out of the hole we were in. I knew that my younger sister and brother were not going to be the ones supporting my parents, but that it was going to be me. So i had this intense pressure that i needed to pick a career that i would like but that would somehow pay me enough to support myself and my family.
    2. I don’t got time to waste on taking an extra class here or there if i needed to switch majors. I knew i wanted to do something that traveled and i knew that it wanted to make money so i chose International Relations. I was going to be an ambassador. No wasting time for me cause remember poor girl here, only rich people get to enjoy their time.
  2. I wanted to go to a christian college AND find a husband there.
    1. I was going to graduate, marry my husband, and then start my glorious career. And everyone knows that college is where you go to find a husband right? yeah my plan was to find a boyfriend freshmen year and date all the way through college and then bam cinderella.
  3. I did not want to get a degree in any type of ministry…but especially NOT missionary work.
    1. Absolutely not, you were not going to find me as a pastor’s wife, as a ministry director, or as a missionary. I remember looking at the map of the world i wanted to travel and telling God ,anything but missionary, Puh-leez anything but that, I can’t do it God, I wONt do it!

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So let’s take a moment to share about what your plans are. Are they as crazy as mine? (Give 5-10 minutes. Ask for one student to start and go around)

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But isn’t it funny that God’s plans are different than our plans.

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So, what was the difference between Moses at 40 years old and Moses at 80 years old?

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Why wouldn’t God use Moses when he was young. I mean wouldn’t it be better to use a man who was in a good age to walk around and do all of the miracles that God needed him to do? Who needs an old guy?

Well, my life went completely different from what i imagined right from the get go. I never finished school, i never married, and look at me now in ministry. I changed my major three times, went to two different schools, and still never finished. Even now that I’m seeking to return i face some seemingly impossible curbs and mountains.

But God knew something i didn’t know, just like He knew something about Moses that he didn’t know. Cause you see it’s obvious that Moses felt that he needed to do something. His people were being abused and oppressed, and he knew that he couldn’t just stand there and allow it to keep happening.

But was there a moment that he reached out to God and asked Him to step in? No, in fact he does the exact opposite, he commits what we would call first-degree murder. As in, he planned, laid in wait, and then killed a man.

At least he used that as a reason to make a call for the Israelites to stand against their oppressors right?