This is being written during the season of Pentecost when we have also been reading of and studying the significance of the call of Moses and how that was a pivotal period historically and spiritually speaking. Read the details in the opening Chapters of the amazing book
Our life is written in risks - the ones we take - and the ones we avoid! Do you think we would remember Moses if he had not stepped out of the safe zone - what might be called his comfort zone?
It has been said that comfort can be a greater threat than adversity. God’s plan is always rewarding, but we must never think it will be easy.
When God called Moses - Moses had many questions and doubts. We took time to consider these the other evening and it was mentioned how we might have reacted in quite a similar manner.
Moses did the only thing that helps when we are uncertain about our future - he obeyed God. Moses was a most effective and powerful leader as were these men raised up for leadership in the early Church.
Moses agreed to respond positively to God’s Call. As a result the children of Israel were delivered out of the hands of Pharaoh.
It is always hard to leave your safe zone - your comfort zone.
Big assignments call for and involve big sacrifices. Remaining in safe zones can rob a man of his greatest moments in Christ.
I remember writing down some years ago, and this was particularly true when teaching in Uganda and Kenya - “When you are away - out of your comfort zone - you really have to depend upon God”.
For these 120 disciples of Jesus Christ we read of in Acts Chapter 2, when Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit and birthed and launched the Church, there was no longer a ‘comfort zone’! A Comforter? Yes! But never again were they every in any comfort zone.
They certainly knew security, but that is rather different from safety. These leaders knew a presence and a power and a peace as they depended upon Almighty God totally.
Sandy Shaw
Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children’s Panel in Scotland, and has travelled extensively over these past years teaching, speaking, in America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, making 12 visits to Israel conducting Tours and Pilgrimages, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya, ministering at Pastors and Leaders Seminars, in the poor areas surrounding Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.
He broadcasts regularly on WSHO radio out of New Orleans, and writes a weekly commentary at http://www.studylight.org entitled “Word from Scotland” on various biblical themes, as well as a weekly newspaper column.
His M.A. and B.D. degrees are from The University of Edinburgh, and he continues to run and exercise regularly to maintain a level of physical fitness.
Sandy Shaw
sandyshaw63@yahoo.com
Tags: Bible, Example, Inspirational, Pentecost, Philosophy, Psychology, Risk, Spiritual, Education
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