The Mission-Call of God

Job 1-2; Acts 6-7

“’I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’. Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look…’I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’”

Acts 7:32, 34

Stephen’s last sermon laid the foundation for God’s revelation of Jesus Christ as the deliverer of Israel. In quoting the Exodus account of Moses’ call, Stephen answered two essential questions that both Moses and Jesus answered: Who is God? And what does God do? God is willing to be identified with those who covenant with him and choose to walk with him. He is the God of relationship with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and countless others in history. God sees, he hears our cry, and he moves in history to deliver his people. Our salvation-story is valuable as part of God’s eternal story of salvation. Knowing who God is and what he does, helps us answer who we are in light of God’s Word to us, and then, what we should do. Moses, Jesus, Stephen, and countless others lived for the mission-call of God and so can we. God is sending us.

Will we go?

“Lord Jesus, you most fully revealed who the Father is and what he did. Reveal the Father through me, for your glory.”