God has called you for this moment

There has to come a time in your pilgrimage when you become conscious that God put you in a specific place, for a specific time and He’s leading you. It’s fearful. It’s painful. It’s too big for you. Moses experienced all of these things. But, like him, you must feel that quiet sense of serenity that God has called you for this moment. It is humbling.


I don’t talk about this much, but I knew my time had come when almost a hundred men would come at night and protect my house. It was Mississippi in the mid-1960’s, and the civil rights movement was already going. Those men would say, “You go to bed. We’ll protect these kids. You are here to do what we can’t do, and it’s our task to protect you.” That’s when I knew that God had called me. These men were so noble. They loved me so dearly. They were old men, and they had been dreaming and longing for someone to come and lead them. I respected them so much that I was afraid of them.

--John M. Perkins in Follow Me to Freedom p 39