https://odb.org/MY/2023/03/29/god-had-other-plans-2
Every time I read about the story of Moses, I marvel at God and His providence. His miraculous ways are simply amazing. At a time when Pharoah had decreed that all newborn Hebrew babies were to be killed, there were people like midwives and mothers who dared to risk their lives to keep the baby. When the mother could not hide the baby any longer, she put the baby into a basket at the Nile, and of all the people who found the baby, it was Pharaoh’s daughter! She recognised him as a Hebrew baby and asked her servant to get a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby, and it turned out that the woman was Moses’s mother! So now Moses and her mother were reunited but under the protection of Pharaoh’s daughter.
We, of course, know the story of Moses as he fled Pharaoh’s Palace at the age of 40 after killing an Egyptian tormenting a Hebrew and at 80 had the experience of seeing the burning bush and after answering God’s call for his life, went on a subsequent 40-year journey where he rescued and brought 600,000 Hebrew slaves (not counting the women and children) out of Egypt, across the desert into Canaan, the Promised Land. Moses had a life that was a series of miracles fulfilling God’s plans and purposes for His people, including many miracles in confronting Pharoah and during the 40-year sojourn in the desert.
Perhaps our own lives may not be as miraculous or as miracles-filled as Moses’s life, but if we are older now, our parents would have lived through and survived the Japanese occupation of Malaya, where many were killed during WW2. Or the fight between the British and the Communists where many innocent lives were also lost in that tussle or the infamous May 13 racial riots. Or those difficult years in the 70s where Malaysia was still developing and life was much tougher than now. Or even these past few years, where, as of today, around 37,000 Malaysians have perished due to Covid-19.
God has a plan for each and every one of us. We are His square peg for His square hole in the Kingdom of God. All that we are today in our spiritual journey with Him, all that we have become in terms of our talents and giftings and experience in Him and at work, He has a plan for us in His glorious Kingdom. We are where we are today because God has placed us here for His glory. Like Paul, who was uniquely placed to reach out to the Gentiles beyond Judea, having grown up in the Greek-speaking world of Tarsus and yet schooled in Hebrew as he was a rabbi, we are all uniquely placed to fulfil God’s plans and purposes for our lives.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, do reflect on our spiritual journey today and ask the Lord what is His calling for us at this season of our lives if we are not already living in the center of His will? The Lord has brought us this far with all of our life experiences and to this stage of our spiritual journey. Are we living out His destiny for us while we are still alive in this world?
Ronnie's Thoughts 