WHAT’S IN YOUR HAND?
Exodus chapter four is a great read as you see Moses being called by God to deliver the people of Israel from Egyptian bondage. Moses is making excuses why he isn’t the right person for the job and how the people will not listen to him. Then God gets his attention with one sentence.
Exodus 4:2 (English Standard Version) The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff."
From that point in Exodus 4 you’ll see God demonstrating His power to Moses through the staff that he had in his hand. The important point to see is how God used what Moses had, not what he didn’t have.
All of us can find things in other people we wish we had. We may even think of how much good we could do if we just had the skills, talent, or means of another person. I believe God would say to us as he said to Moses, “What is in your hand?” What skills, talent, opportunities, and means do you have right now? What are you doing with what you have? Have you offered what you have to God as an instrument for His use?
Too many times we get into the “why I can’t” mode of thinking as we look at what others have or even more at what we don’t have. God’s wake up call is simple: Look at what you do have and offer it to me.
In the New Testament, the disciples took the little they could find in a boys lunch and gave it to Jesus who blessed it and fed the multitude and even had some left over. There are endless possibilities what God can do with what we have if we’ll just offer it to God.
Before you compare yourself to others or complain about your situation, what God said to Moses is applicable to all of us, “What is in your hand?”
Godspeed,
Bob Brubaker
Bob is the pastor of Christ Community Presbyterian Church, Clearwater, Florida. See www.ccpconline.org for church information and listen to Bob’s latest sermons.
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