The High Calling of God

Ezekiel 47:1-12 Verse 5: “Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.” This morning I was eating my breakfast near a window that overlooked our yard. I especially like to look out at our picket fence, the flowers and the bird baths. The robins have been enjoying coming to the bird baths, especially in this heat wave that we are having. I watched as a couple of robins would drink and bathe in the bath.   They get into the water and they flutter around as if to splash the water under their wings.   They turn in circles and seem to really enjoy the cool refreshing water.   Even the little birds come to take a drink and dip every now and then. I thought of the verse in Ezekiel where an angel brought Ezekiel to the door of the temple and “there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple…”   The angel continued to lead Ezekie

1 Chronicles 15:1 "David built houses for himself in the City of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it."  Recently I noticed on our front porch, a red finch was beginning to build a nest. But I also noticed the remains of an egg on the porch floor, just beneath the unfinished nest.   I thought at the time-how sad. The mom dropped her egg before her nest was complete.   It possibly may have been a young mother not used to preparing a nest – BEFORE- having her babies. I began thinking how, in the spiritual- we must PREPARE before giving birth to spiritual things. In the verse above, David prepared a place for the ark of God- which symbolized God's Presence.  He wanted to make sure that the Presence of God had a place to abide. We need to make sure that we have a place prepared within us for the Presence of God where God can place visions and assignments in our spirit.  But many times-because we haven’t prepared a

Exodus 3:1-4 Verse 3  "So Moses said, 'I must turn away (from the flock) and see this great sight...'" (Amplified) Moses was in the middle of doing his usual daily routine- just watching the flock of his father-in-law Jethro.   Suddenly, he sees something that he has never seen before- a bush was on fire, but it was not burning up.   Scripture tells us that he turned aside to see why.   He stepped aside.   He left what he was doing for the moment to investigate what was happening.   Of course, reading in the rest of the chapter and many chapters after that,  we learn what the outcome was. God eventually uses him to deliver His children out of bondage in Egypt and into the promised land. Think for a moment what would have happened had he not stopped what he was doing, just kept on tending his flock, figuring the sight was just his imagination.   What a tragedy- for him.   If that would have happened God would have found someone else, I am sure.   But Mose