Moses was a shepherd tending his flock by a mount and a desert bush.  He had no idea he would become the deliverer of an entire nation. And then there were fishermen casting their nets into the waters, having no idea they would one day become some of the most famous people who ever walked the earth…the disciples.  There’s a pattern.  Moses in his former life was a shepherd who led his flock through the desert.  God would then use him to shepherd a nation and lead the flock of Israel through that same wilderness.  The disciples in their former lives were fishermen.  God would use them to become messengers of the Messiah…fishers of men. Their former lives corresponded with their redeemed lives. 

God created and purposed them from the beginning to become what they would become.  So it wasn’t that Moses became the shepherd of Israel because he was a shepherd of sheep.  It was that Moses became a shepherd of sheep…because he was to become the shepherd of Isreal.  And it wasn’t that the disciples became fishers of men because they were fishermen. Rather, they became fishermen…because they were to one day become fishers of men.  So it is for all of God’s children.  And so it is for you.  When you look back at your life, you will find hidden within it this mystery. Your life was a mystery waiting to be redeemed…a mystery in which was embedded the seeds of His purposes to be used for His glory.  It wasn’t that He happened to discover your life and then decided to use it for His purposes.  It was that you were what you were because God had purposed from the beginning what you would one day become.  So commit every part of your life, all that you have and all that you are, to the will and purposes of God.  And your life will become all that it was created and called and formed to become, all it was waiting to become…from the beginning.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

2 Timothy 1:9

-from The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn