God Uses Your Past to Shape Your Future:
The essence of this article—highlighting both the transformative power of God’s plan and the idea that past experiences, are part of the journey toward fulfilling true calling. We invite you to reflect on the purpose behind struggles, and to see the past in a redemptive light.
Moses’s life offers a powerful example of how God can take our past experiences and use them to shape our future. Like Moses, who once fled Egypt as a prince, only to become a humble shepherd made powerful in isolation.
The Wilderness is Not the End:
Moses was raised in the household of Pharaoh; he fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian in defense of his people (Exodus 2:11-12). This sent Moses on a long journey into the wilderness for forty years shepherding sheep. But what Moses couldn’t see at the time was that God was preparing him. His time in the wilderness wasn’t wasted; it was a time of development, of learning to trust God in silence and solitude.
In the wilderness, Moses was not alone. God was with him. The quiet days of shepherding, the routine, and the isolation—it was all a part of God’s plan to mold Moses into the leader he needed to be.
God called to Moses from a burning bush, revealing HIS plan to use Moses to deliver the Israelites from Egypt (Exodus 3:2-4). When Moses encountered the burning bush, he didn’t know all the details of God’s plan, but he was certain of one thing: God had not forgotten him. God had a purpose for him, despite his past mistakes and failures.
Should you find yourself in the wilderness, remember, it is not a time to run from God, or to be ashamed of your past. It is a time to cry out to your FATHER. HE is the one who can lead you out of the wilderness.
Moses was a fugitive, a murderer, and a man burdened by shame and guilt. Yet, when God called him, HE did not focus on Moses’s shortcomings. Instead, God reminded Moses that HE would be with him to stand before Pharaoh.
God assured Moses that HIS presence would make the difference, not Moses’ abilities.
This truth applies to us all: God does not call the qualified; HE qualifies the called. Your qualifications for your calling are not based on your past mistakes, your age, or your abilities. They are based on God’s grace and HIS willingness to work through you. When God calls, HE equips.
God’s Restoration Transforms Your Future:
When God restores it is not limited to your past, HE redeems your life, HE doesn’t just patch it up; HE transforms it. HIS restoration reaches far beyond what you can imagine. When God called Moses, HE wasn’t just calling him out of the desert; HE was calling him into a future that would change the course of history. God used Moses to lead the Israelites to freedom, a task that would shape nations and bring glory to HIS name.
The greatest lesson we can learn from Moses’s life is that age, past failures, or isolation in the wilderness are not obstacles to God’s plan for us. They are part of the process. No season of life is wasted when we are walking with God.
Previously mentioned Scripture:
Exodus 2:11-12
New International Version
Moses Flees to Midian
11 “One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.”
Exodus 3:2-4
Living Bible
2 “suddenly the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him as a flame of fire in a bush. When Moses saw that the bush was on fire and that it didn’t burn up, 3-4 he went over to investigate. Then God called out to him, “Moses! Moses!” ”