Genesis 12:1 The Call of Abram

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”

Exodus 3:3 The Call of Moses

And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

We can understand how God got Moses’s attention but how did Abram know he was called by God since the gods of the Chaldeans were Marduk, Ishtar, Anu, Enlil, Ea, Sin, Shamash, Nabu, Nergal and Adad. None of those idols ever spoke to man.

How did Abram know he was listening to the Lord? The first to demonstrate faith would be a pioneer of the first order.

Moses saw a long history of faith demonstrated prior to his burning bush moment. The God of Abraham was known to Moses. Horeb was known to Moses as the mountain of God which was related to him by his wife and father-in-law. (Exodus 3:1) Moses would have had some indication that this sign was coming from God.

Now comes our real dilemma, how do we know God is calling us?

Is it a desire of the flesh or is it by faith that has already been placed in Jesus Christ?

The Hebrew word for weed is Zizanion, a kind of darnel, resembling wheat except the grains are black. During the bundling process it would be easy for the angels to identify one from the other.

Since we are told that the Lord does not judge by appearance, then we that follow the Lord are asked not to judge others by appearances.

Here is my advice in this area: if the darnel is to be changed into wheat, only God can change them, just as He did for us. If they are not with us, they will leave us on their own.

Psalm 119:30 (English Standard Version)

 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

The job title of influencer on social media is fairly new. Some make a living that way. They have a following and feel important. That is an opportunity to be bundled with influencers.

Let us not concern ourselves unnecessarily with types of bundles as everyone fits in a bundle except those who are in Christ Jesus. We have been set free.

Matthew 13:24-30 The Parable of the Weeds

²⁴ He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵ but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. ²⁶ So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. ²⁷ And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

The good seed sown is the Gospel of Christ. The field is His Church. The enemy is the devil.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Were you called or influenced?

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.