Many people lived all their lives as the same version they started with.
Like books, we need to be updated, upgraded and to become a better version of ourselves. We have individuals who all their lives remain what they used to be.
You wonder why some never changed jobs or get promoted. The reason is often because they failed to upgrade who they are and what they do.
This is also the reason why some businesses never grow beyond what they used to be some time ago. The same applies to other areas of life.
God want us to improve, he wants us to scale up. Nobody is expected to remain the same way he or she began in life.
The main culprits are the ministers of God, they often don’t believe in the evolution or expansion of their calling. By so doing they live all their lives as ordinary beings. Even when God is trying to add to their assignment and increase the workload of their job description in the Kingdom they give excuses why things must remain as they used to be.
They are the Zacharias who give excuses for why they couldn’t give birth to new dreams.
MOSES
Moses was not stagnant in his purpose for his generation.
He started as a shepherd before God upgraded him to become the saviour or rather the deliverer of Israel from Pharaoh and Egypt.
Along the line, the same Moses became the prophet of God to the people. Lastly, this same Moses was given the principal responsibility to anoint Aaron and his children into the office of perpetual priesthood.
The same Moses who was a shepherd who became a leader, a prophet and a priest; illustrates the different sides of the same person.
God expects his chosen one to become versatile in discharging his responsibility to his generation.
AMOS
Amos was a cattle rearer among his fellow friends and family at Tekoa.
He was having a nice time until God came to him and gave him prophetic messages to Israel and his generation.
Amos metamorph and moved upward to represent God to his generation. Today we are still reading what this prophet wrote and its application to our generation.
If you too will open your heart to the lord he will make use of you and he will anoint you to serve a greater purpose.
DAVID
In a nutshell, David too grew through various phases.
He too upgraded through different versions of himself. He started as a shepherd then he became a musician in the palace. Afterwards, he led a band in the desert for years as a warrior and a general. From this position, he became the King of Judah and then over the entire Israel as a nation.
In the course of discharging his royal responsibility, he attained another dimension of himself – a prophet. Many things which he wrote about transcend times into the days of Jesus the Messiah.
Many of us retain just a version of our old ourselves throughout our lifetime.
Search deeply you will find the other version of yourself calling for expression.
PAUL
Paul started as a scribe; or what we will call a lawyer in our days.
Along the line, he also trained as a tent maker; in our days that could be a name for an architect or a civil engineer. When he got converted he started as a disciple then he became an apostle. At the end of his days on earth, he was acclaimed as a leading apostle and an outstanding author who wrote about 2/3 of the New Testament.
We learn from Paul to magnify our offices in Christ Jesus.
It’s time to grow.
JESUS
Jesus too transformed from one phase of operation to another. This is pointing us to the dynamic nature God expects us to put forth as we live here on Earth.
Jesus Christ was once the son of a carpenter, he proceeded to become a carpenter.
He didn’t stop here, when he was full of age he became a teacher and a prophet of God in the discharge of his responsibilities. At the close of his life, he died for the sins of the whole world to assume a new office; the Savior.
Jesus Christ in the coming age will assume a new title: the King of Kings. This same Jesus, different phases, different responsibilities, different offices and different roles as demanded at each level of operation.
FINALLY
You cannot afford to remain the same old you.
Whoever you are, you need to learn from the biblical characters that every phase of life requires us to operate based on the need of the hour.
This is calling us to become well-prepared, trained and dynamic.
God bless you
