Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
—Exodus 3:10–11

If someone were to look over your life closely, are you afraid that all they would see is in your life, and He will pull you out of the trash because He sees treasure. He is in the recycling business. Do you believe that?

The infant Moses was lying hidden in the reeds and the debris and the gunk of the Nile in an ark made of bulrushes daubed "with slime and with pitch" (Exodus 2:3). What looked like trash was chosen and called out by God to become the greatest of all the Jewish prophets. He was spared from Pharaoh's death sentence on Jewish baby boys by divine intervention, not by accident, and God brought Moses into all the provision of the house of Pharaoh.

Your life is not an accident. You are not reading this Bible by accident. You also have been chosen and called out by God. When you are spared in a car crash or you make it through a difficult time, stop asking why it happened and rather ask why you survived. God knows exactly what forces are coming against you and how to deliver you from them, so that by your coming up against those forces and experiencing God's delivering power, you are strengthened for what lies ahead. You have to get in the unfamiliar in order to grow. It is the pressure you have experienced that pushes you into God's power.

Moses did not understand God's calling on his life to deliver his people, and he was premature in his actions. He took matters in his own hands, killed an Egyptian, and ended up fleeing to the wilderness (Exodus 2). God's call did not change, but the wilderness became a boot camp for that calling to be honed. God was training him for all that he was going to need to lead two million-plus Jews out of Egypt and to take them to the Promised Land.

God has a prepared place for prepared people. The difficulty is not preparing the place but the people. In my own life, the lessons I learned on how to stretch our grocery money prepared me to deal with the huge television budgets that we did not have the money for. Don't despise small beginnings. They can turn into large endings.