Use what's in your hand
Often when God asks you to do something for Him you look at what you presently have in your life and wonder to yourself, "How is that ever going to happen?" In this account of Moses we see the great Moses feel the same. God had just called him to go face to face with Pharaoh and to command him to release the whole nation of Israel who were the slaves of the land. Moses, along with His speech problem, thinks, "Okay, what tools are you giving me God because what I have and what I own right now in my life is not enough to pull that task off?" Look at God's response to him.
Exodus 4:1-5 (NKJV)
Then Moses answered and said, "But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'" So the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." And He said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.Then the LORD said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail" (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), "that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
Moses was probably looking for a 'new download' or some military equipment, or at the very least a helicopter? God's response was, "What's in your hand?" In that statement God said a whole lot to Moses and to us:
First of all, you have everything you need to do everything that God has called you to do in your life. Don't wait for a 'divine download', just let Him empower what you already have and are, and then watch with amazement at what you can do. Moses had carried that rod around for years leading sheep with it, but he never saw it the way that God did. I bet he never imagined it could do tricks and part oceans at crucial moments. We need to realise that, like Moses, we too sometimes underestimate everyday things in our life and we all need to dare to see everyday things with the same potential and imagination that God does.
The truth is that it was just a rod made of wood, cousin to the branch, uncle to the toothpick; but when God empowered it then it was able to assist Moses to deliver a nation. When you allow God to use the everyday things in your life you too will be amazed at what they are really able to do. Stop looking at what you think you have not got and begin to commit to Him daily what you do! Don't live life waiting for a package that could come - begin to look afresh at what God has already given you in the light of its potential with God's touch on it. He has blessed each and every one of us with different gifts, abilities and talents. Bring them again to Him today and let Him turn what looks to you like a stick into something that impacts lives and situations.
Remember the account of the disciples when they met the crippled man at Gate Beautiful? He asked them for money but they responded, "Silver and gold have we none, but such as we have we will give to you". Don't spend your life looking at what you don't have but let God do something supernatural with what you do have. With such as you have make a difference in the world!
I remember when I was first saved I used to look at all the educated and eloquent speakers and ministers and then I would look at me, uneducated and unpolished in comparison. But one day I stopped comparing myself and looking at what was not there and gave God what I had for Him to use. I remember the exact prayer: "God, all I have is a big mouth and a vivid imagination, they are yours to use". I am sure you will agree He took those sticks and empowered them and they are very effective for His kingdom today.
What's in your hand today? Offer it to God and watch what happens next!
Bless you,
Andy
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