God backs obedience
I must realise that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. ~ Oswald Chambers
It's not just about who we are, but obedience in where we are put. For our good Lord chooses our times and places, that we may reach out to Him. To each God assigns a field, where we are to sow, and maybe even reap. But these times and places are as finite as our breath.
There is a field that exists for each one of us to be obedient in. Consider Noah.
Noah held four jobs/seasons (to my mind) in his 950 years:
- builder/carpenter
- preacher of righteousness
- sailor
- a man of the soil/vigneron.
Each role/place filled a different time and place. They varied greatly.
Each season completed well ushered in a good and due next one. It is then a joy to enter the subsequent season, for it shall be better than the first.
If you love Me obey My commands. (John 14:15)
The Last Word:
We have not the placing of ourselves, but the filling of our places. ~ Horatius Bonar