David was BORN to be KING. Joseph was BORN to be an ADMINISTRATOR of great power. Moses was born to be a DELIVERER. ABRAHAM was born to the be the FATHER of many nations. You also were born with a purpose. None of the people mentioned above stepped into their divine calling until they were much OLDER. And none of them found their divine purpose without going through many trials, test and failures.
Can you name me one outstanding accomplishment that Moses had before he delivered them out of bondage in Egypt? Can you name one accomplishment that would have gotten Joseph the NOBEL peace prize before he became second in command in all of Egypt? The only accomplishments David could claim before killing the giant was killing a lion and a bear. None of them were notable people with great accomplishments before God used them to change the whole world.
Moses was known for his mistakes and failures, yet God used him anyway. Joseph was known as a slave and a prisoner, yet God used him to save the world anyway. David was known as a show-off and a trouble maker by his brothers, yet God used him to slay the giant anyway.
Have you made a lot of mistakes? Have you had a lot of set backs? Have you tried and failed many times. Do you think of yourself as ordinary, or nothing special? Don't count your self out just yet. All those great people of God mentioned above were right were you are at one point in their life.
Thomas Edison tried and failed over 1000 times to produce a light bulb that would work. He only got it right one time, and failed over a thousand times, yet we herald him as one of the greatest scientific minds that ever lived. Abraham Lincoln failed to win any elections he ran for accept for one. He finally won the presidency of the United States after decades of trying to win political office and failing. He lost many elections, and only won one, yet we herald him as one of the greatest presidents that ever lived. Joseph did not have one accomplishment that was by his own efforts or his own means. He didn't work his way up the corporate ladder. He spent most of his life in the lowest status of society, a slave and a prisoner. And yet when Pharaoh promoted him, God used him mightily to save the entire world.
Maybe your life has been full of heart aches, tragedies, and failure after failure. Don't count yourself out or sell your self short. God has a way of taking us from failure to failure, heart ache to heart ache and using it all to accomplish something great if we do not give up.
All the people I mentioned above had more than heart aches and failures in common. They also refused to give up, refused to quit, refused to settle for less than the best, refused to roll over and die, they persevered in the face of adversity and in spite of failure after failure they continued to hold on to their dreams and they kept moving forward.
What is it going to take to fulfill God's call on your life? A willingness to stay in stride in spite of failures and hardships because no matter how many times you fail to make something good happen with your efforts, it only takes one time of break through to turn it all around.
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