Throughout God's Word there are examples of great men, and women too, raised up by God for a specific purpose at a specific time. Moses, David, Jacob, Joshua, Rahab, Mary, Othniel..... wait a minute here. Who's Othniel?
"When they cried out to the Lord, He raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel..., Caleb's younger brother, who saved them." (Judges 3:9-10)
That is just how God works. Many of the "heroes of the faith" were prepared by God for prolonged periods, or served Him for extended periods of time. But many more were simply raised up for a specific purpose. His story is punctuated by examples of this type of deliverer, otherwise ordinary men and women who slipped quietly into and out of roles that fulfilled His purpose.
You may know some of them too. I am certain that I do. You may even be one of them. Even as you read this, the Creator may be preparing you for an extraordinary act of service, possibly as crucial as the touching of just one life.
His ways are not ours. And so we must allow God to work amid our present trials and in the little victories, the future significance of which we can only imagine. And so I encourage each of you - myself included - to allow Him to prepare you as He did Othniel at Kiriath Sepher. Read about it in Judges. Allow Him to open your mind and heart to the possibilities of a life that exceeds your understanding. Maybe start with His Word.
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