Friday, December 21, 2018

MOED - Your God Appointed Time Is Right Now by pastor Todd Lout

So do not consume your selves with questions: what will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear? Outsiders make them selves frantic over such questions; they don’t realize that your heavenly father knows exactly what you need. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then all these things will be given to you too. So do not worry about tomorrow. Let tomorrow worry about itself.
Living faithful he is a large enough to ask for today.
Matthew 6:31-34
There’s a word in the Hebrew language that, like many Hebrew words, is more than just a word.  It’s a way of life that is assumed and lived out.  That word is MOED.  It means, “Appointed Time”.  More in depth the literal meaning is, “You are at your God-appointed time, right this minute...and in the next minute, day, week, year and so on.”

The understanding that there is no questioning that we are at the age we should be and in the place we should be does away with fear and worry.  No getting upset that we are ageing.  No allowing circumstances to become larger than the fact that God’s got this.  Even if we royally screw up some of our moments, or even years of time, God is still in this very Moed, waiting for us to walk it out with Him.  He certainly has the best answer, the greatest solution, and He’s the only one who can take all those screw ups and make things right in this moment.  He is always standing in our appointed time, willing...no, desiring to be involved.

My own translation of this word, Moed, is “A Constant Appointment With Jesus”.  When something or someone attempts to rob from us (our joy, our peace, our time with our Maker...) we have every right to say, “No, I have an appointment I need to keep.”

Believing that we are in our God-appointed time will also crush the lie that our life is simply a statistic or mistake.  Friends, if that lie has hung around you, it’s time to tell it, “Nope, I’m in my appointed time that God, Himself, has placed me in.  There is an abundance of purpose here!”

Eventually, as we understand that we are always in our Moed, we will become more aware of how we steward our time. 

Let’s change things and allow this word, Moed, to be another standard for our lives...along with that ever-present banner over us that says, “This Is The One I Love”.

                                                                         Love, Todd

P.S. I shared in detail about this last Saturday night. While speaking, a couple songs came up.  Here's the link to the message and links to those songs:
Live In The Moed
Not In A Hurry - Will Reagan
Life Is A Gift And The Giver Is Good - Pat Barrett

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