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Aug.19.04: Light for the Day - "The Call to Commitment"
-- Exodus 3:4
When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said,
"Here I am."
-- Romans 8:28
" And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love
Him, who have been called according to His purpose."
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God called Moses to a task that required a tremendous commitment. Once he accepted the challenge, there was no turning back. He could not lead the nation of Israel out of Egypt and then decide he had made a wrong decision.
True commitment changes a person's life forever. It changed Moses. Once he committed himself to God's call, everything else became insignificant.
However, it was not always that way. It took forty years of molding and reshaping Moses' character before he was ready for the mission God had for him. Then one day, a flash of light on the side of Mount Horeb caught his eye. A bush was ablaze; yet the fire did not consume it. When Moses stepped toward the burning bush, he took a step toward a lifelong commitment. Before that moment, his eyes were on his flocks, his family, his hurts, and his desires.
Has God placed a burning bush in your life, but you are afraid of the commitment? Moses could have avoided the call, but he never would have known the wonder of the holiness of God. Nothing is worth missing God's wonderful plan for your life.
-- Charles Stanley
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-- Exodus 19:20
The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up.
-- Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
-- Acts 22:21
"Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’"
-- Acts 20:24
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me— the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.
-- 1 Corinthians 1:17,18
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel— not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
-- Acts 2:21
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
-- Romans 10:13
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
-- Romans 8:38,39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-- 2 Corinthians 4:16,17
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
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