What's Your MOS?
Monday, December 29, 2025
“Each of God’s sons and daughters were created for a unique assignment discovered through trials and testing.” – Os Hillman
In the military, every service member is assigned a military occupational specialty (MOS). For instance, the Marine Corps offers more than 80 different specialties from intelligence and logistics to field artillery, avionics, and ammunition and explosive ordnance disposal.
The same goes for the individual members of the Body of Christ, His Church. We are a spiritual army and each of God’s soldiers has a critical assignment to perform for God’s glory and the edification of his or her fellow comrades-in-arms.
Imagine if one Marine failed to take his assignment seriously or to complete it properly? Lives would be at stake, and an entire mission could be compromised. Ditto when it comes to Christ’s bride, where eternal souls hang in the balance.
That is why Os Hillman, founder of Marketplace Leaders, is reminding us today that trials and testing are necessary prerequisites to fulfilling our spiritual MOS as well as our earthly and eternal destinies.
“The greater the call, the greater the requirement of sacrifice and the greater the test God will send to His sons and daughters. This will reveal the depth of love and commitment one has for Him. The depth and width of the call is always proportional to your level of adversity and testing.”
“God requires more of those He entrusts with a large vision. More commitment, more faith and more sacrifice. You don’t get there overnight. These will often be progressive tests as you prove your faithfulness to God. The tests will enable you to know what is in your own heart.”
“Do not shrink back; keep walking forward so that God may fulfill the assignment He has for you.”
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”… “And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” Genesis 22:12 & 18 (BSB)
“For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them…” Romans 12:4-6a (ESV)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
