Willing – cheerfully consenting or ready. As I continue to read Amos, the Lord reminded me that Amos was not a “prophet”. Amos was a shepherd that the Lord called up to prophesy. However, Amos was willing to allow the Lord to use him to speak to Israel as a prophet. The revelation to me through this was not that the Lord can give us the gifts that we need for a specific purpose or time. But my revelation was that we focus too much on what we are going to do with our lives. In most aspects of our lives is seems right to have 5, 10, 20 year plans. The question I have is why would I do that when I am not even guaranteed tomorrow? I am not necessarily against preparing and making plans, but I wonder if we have just put too much emphasis on doing that. I have seen the Lord completely redirect people’s paths. They went to college to do what they felt they were supposed to do and now they are in a completely different “career” path. I know that what they started out doing was not wrong, it was what they were to do for that time.
We need to be willing to allow the Lord to change our paths, our minds, and our hearts. We need to be open to something different that the Lord would have us do. We should continue to keep the Lord as our main focus so that we can listen to His voice and follow where He leads. I know for me, right now, I am supposed to be focused on being a wife and a mom. I honestly cannot think of anything else I want to do, because this is what the Lord has called me to now. I am not worried about what I will be doing in five years; I am concerned with what I need to be doing now. The Lord could speak to me in the next five minutes and give me a different direction to go in. So, I need to be willing to do whatever that may be. The Lord has made me a prophet, but that doesn’t mean He won’t use me to be a pastor, teacher, apostle, or evangelist for a time. I want my eyes to be open and my heart to be willing to what the Lord will have for me today, tomorrow and in 20 years.
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