Sometimes God calls, and when he calls you best move.

Even if all you have desired to be done is not done, even if your ideal state of ready is not ready. Even if you’ve stepped out of the shower 🚿 and you have no time to dry your hair.

Arrive at your appointment with your hair still wet.

Arrive at your destiny without the full look that you think you need to be.

Arrive because he calls, drop the dryer, drop the brush, pick up your calling and go!

Don’t worry about your appearance, don’t consider how they think you will look, consider what you will bring, did you bring the goods for the king? Did you bring the offer of service, the offer of gifts? 🎁

 ^{1 Samuel} 25:17Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.” ¹⁸ Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs^[b] of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹ Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Abigail, she acted quickly. Abigail had no time 🕰️ to prepare herself, no time to beautify her looks. Abigail made her way to the future king 👑 very quickly. As the wife of a foolish man who has offended a great and powerful man, Abigail would have probably liked to have prepared herself.

Before she was to grace a powerful man who had the means and the reason to desecrate her and everything she had, she probably would have liked to have looked and smelt her best.

We don’t know where Abigail was when the servant relayed the message to her. Was she tending to something in her house? We know her husband was sheering sheep.🐑

Even though Abigail had servants, we don’t know if she still had work to attend to. Maybe she was already cleaning something, cooking something or rearranging something.

But whatever she was doing, she had to stop, drop and go. Fire was upon her. Destruction was so close to Abigail. With the message of the servant to her, she acted quickly.

And she loaded everything good, she brought all that she could carry on the backs of the donkeys. 🫏 🫏 🫏

She probably rocked up to David with a few hairs out of place. She probably rocked up to David in her typical day wear, nothing elaborate, lacking perfume, lacking a hair brush.

Friend, I don’t know what God has told you, but drop and go.

Load up the goods for the king and make your way.

The king doesn’t see the arranged appearance.

²³ When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.

David doesn’t notice that she dropped everything to meet him, he doesn’t mentions her physical state. David notices her humility, her willingness to serve and her good judgement.

⁴⁰ His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.” ⁴¹ She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

God has arrived, he has called, maybe unexpectedly like the servants called again upon Abigail. The first servant came to Abigail with a plea for her to move and because she did the second time the servant came to Abigail it was to change her position.

Your position will not change unless you answer the pleas God calls you to.

So run friend. Drop everything and show up with the goods that have been accompanying you all along. Arrive with the prepared cakes! With the prepared skins of wine 🍷

Arrive with the preparation you already had prepared, even if you yourself show up with your hair still wet.

Even if you don’t look like the very thing you will soon become.

A Queen 👸🏻👸🏼👸🏿👸👸🏽👸🏾