I Am Free

(3:1-10) What we must learn is that God calls people to serve Him. Just think who it is that calls us to serve Him. It is the sovereign Lord of all who actually stooped down and breathe the breath of life in us that gives us the privilege to serve Him. This should excite us. This should make us want to shout and to seek God's will, and to seek God's hand upon our lives.

To all who are seeking God, to all who are wanting God’s hand upon them will see and feel change upon their lives, and those that want to feel a sense of freedom when we serve God, these Scripture will show us how we can receive God's call, it will teach us how we can feel God’s move upon our lives, and how to feel the Spirit of freedom from.

So, we see a few important things here in the scripture

1. We see the kind of man God called (v.1-3).

If you remember, Moses had been the prince of Egypt. Consequently, a disappointed Pharaoh was seeking Moses' life and Moses was forced to leave down into Midian. In that distant but safe land, Moses met and agreed to work for Jethro, the priest of Midian. But notice: all this had happened forty years before this present Scripture. God's call to Moses took place after Moses left Egypt and settlement in Midian, and forty years later, a significant event happens: God called Moses, and God called him to an epic task.

So notice the kind of man God called.

1. Moses was a shepherd, which suggests that he had a heart that could shepherd people. When the call of God came to Moses, he was tending the flocks of Jethro, (his father-in-law).

The Hebrew has the idea of a continuous action; that is, tending the flocks was his job. Moses was a shepherd by occupation. And the work of a shepherd was...

• to feed the sheep,

• to water the sheep.

• to guide the sheep.

• to seek and save the sheep who got lost.

• to protect the sheep.

• to keep the sheep separate from the goats, and to keep them safe from the wolves.

In other words, His heart had to be both, tough and tender, hard and compassionate, disciplined and soft.

In addition to this, the shepherd had to spend a great deal of time alone out in the countryside.

While alone he could of just allowed his mind to waste time and wander about, from thought to thought or he could’ve utilize that time to develop his thought processes and to draw near God. In others words, the shepherd always had the opportunity to use his time to become a man of great devotion and prayer.

And obviously, Moses had spent forty years doing just this: developing the heart of a true shepherd and utilizing the hours alone to draw closer and closer to God. With this being said now God was ready to call him to be the shepherd of God's people.

And what this is telling us is that God doesn’t call a particular profession, but he calls a particular heart, a heart that is willing to tackle the task at hand. God's call comes to the heart that is willing to shepherd God’s people.

1) I’ve learned from this lesson that God calls on a people who does not waste time, but who uses his time wisely; to a person who utilizes his time to develop his thought processes and to draw near him, God calls a people who don’t mind becoming an individual of devotion and prayer.

2) God call on people who is willing to feed and guide the multitude, the people, to seek and save people who are lost, and to protect and keep people for God.

That’s why Jeremiah 3:15 say "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

(Jeremiah 23:4) “And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.”

2. Moses was a hard-working, industrious man (Exodus 3:1). Look at where he was when God's call him: he was tending the flock at the far side of the desert.

He was working for his father-in-law Jethro. And the job that Jethro had given him was hard, he was a shepherd.

Understand that a shepherd's job demanded long hours, seven days a week. His work sometimes demanded that he be far away from home, away from his family for weeks at a time. The work was also lonely and dangerous. The point to see is that Moses worked hard; He was not lazy, nor was slothful. And because of that, when God looked at Moses, He saw a hard-working, industrious man that would get the job done.