Leave your comfort zone [1]

Memory Verse: Isaiah 42: 16 – “I will lead the blind by a way they do not know; I will guide them in paths that they do not know.I will make darkness into light before them, and rugged places into plains. These things I will do [for them], and I will not leave them abandoned or undone.”

The Word for Today devotional by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) says

To do God has will, Moses had to leave his comfort zone. ‘Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter … He thought it was better to suffer … than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward’ (Hebrews 11:24-26 NLT).

To fulfil the assignment God gave him, Moses had to be willing to give up two things:

1) Comfort.

Ease is a greater threat to your progress than hardship. After living in a palace, Moses spent his next forty years in the desert-tending sheep. He married one of Jethro’s daughters, managed her father’s business, and enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle.

Can you imagine leaving all that to go back and face Pharaoh? God’s plan for your life will bless and reward you, but never assume it will be easy.

2) Security.

When God called him, Moses had many doubts and questions: ‘Who am I that I should go?’ (Exodus 3:11 NKJV). ‘What shall I say to them?’ (Exodus 3:13 NKJV). ‘Suppose they will not believe me?’ (Exodus 4:1 NKJV). ‘But I am slow of speech’ (Exodus 4:10 NKJV). Finally he told God, ‘Send someone else’ (Exodus 4:13 NIV 2011 Edition).

Have you been doing that? Fortunately, God would not take no for an answer, and Moses finally did the one thing that works when you are uncertain about the future: He obeyed God, entrusting the details of the future to Him.

In doing, that Moses agreed to answer God’s call, leave his comfort zone, and return to Egypt. As a result, the Children of Israel were delivered from slavery, and Moses’ name became a household word.