Contend Not with Your Destiny

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 “Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty0three when they spoke to Pharaoh”.  Exod. 7:17

Contend not with your destiny.   If you do, you will surely fail.  Note that when God wants to choose a leader, He chooses whom He wills.  David was too junior to be reckoned with by his people, yet God chose him to be their leader.  Esther was too junior to Mordecai.  She was of no repute but God chose this young girl to save Israel. Naaman and his family were far too big over the little girl that God used to heal the leprous Naaman. Miriam and Aaron were older than Moses but God chose Moses, a stammerer to lead Israelites out of Egypt.  Esau was older than Jacob but God preferred Jacob to Esau. 

No matter your calendar age, God may have chosen your younger brother or sister as a spiritual or temporal leader over you. Calendar year has no relevance when it gets to God using one to accomplish a particular purpose.  We all must have humble hearts and deep understanding to accept whoever the Lord has chosen to lead us in the church, in our offices,at home, in our churches or wherever we find ourselves.  When you envy your younger brother or sister because of you are older than him or her by calendar age, you may be destroying yourself.  Miriam and Aaron did it.  Aaron was repentant, Miriam showed no remorse and God forgave Aaron but punished Miriam.  That’s just it. When God has appointed somebody over us all we need is to cooperate with that person to achieve God’s purpose for his life. Such a person will be a blessing rather than a curse to us.  Aaron reigned with Moses throughout. So he succeeded just as Moses, the leader did. That’s what it takes to be humble.   Joseph’s father and all his brethren bowed down to the former because God has ordained it to be so.  After all, Joseph’s father once asked, “Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?” At long last, they all did bow down to Joseph one after the other!

Stop courting trouble by being proud.  Instead, lay aside your pride. Recognised whoever God has placed in authority over you. Assist and cooperate with them. Their stars will shine. Yours will shine along.  Whoever that person may be (your child, your wife, your boss in the office, your parents, your sibling, your very junior Pastor, ) as the Lord lives may He grant you the humble spirit to submit to whoever is in authority over you in Jesus name.  May the destiny of your leader not destroy God’s purpose for your life in Jesus name.