Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“God called to him . And he said, ‘Here I am’ ” (Exodus 3:4).
When God speaks, many of us are like people in a San Francisco fog, and we give no answer. Moses’ answer to God revealed that he knew where he was and that he was ready.
Yesterday's blog, we talked about being ready to serve Him. Today, we will talk about the state of readiness. Readiness means having a right relationship with God and having the knowledge of where we are in life.
Because sometimes we get so busy telling God where we would like to go. Yet the man or woman who is ready for God and His work is the one who receives the prize when the call comes.
A lot of us wait with the idea that some great opportunity or something sensational will be coming our way, and when it does come we are quick to cry out, “Here I am.” Whenever we sense that Jesus Christ is about to take authority over some great task, we cry out, but we are not spiritually ready for the duty.
Readiness for God means that we are prepared all the time to do the smallest thing or the largest thing—it makes no difference.
It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God’s plans are, we are there and ready.
Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God’s voice as our Lord heard His Father’s voice, and we are ready for it with the total readiness of our love for Him.
Jesus Christ expects to do with us just as His Father did with Him. He can place us wherever He wants, in major duties or in menial ones, because our union with Him should be the same as His union with the Father. “ that they may be one just as We are one ” (John 17:22).
Christians should be ready everytime for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to get ready, because he is ready.
The burning bush Moses encountered in (Exodus 3:2) is a symbol of everything that surrounds the person who is ready, it is on fire with the directions of God and it is on fire with the presence of God Himself.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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