In Your Hand
Moses is one of the greats of faith. Revered by Jews and Christians. Spoken of by unbelievers. Moses. Moses. Moses.
Moses talked back to God and basically said, “Find someone else for the job.” (Exodus 3) He gave all kinds of excuses to try to talk God out of sending him to Pharaoh. But God, being God, would not relent. He chose Moses, and Moses it was going to be.
When Moses finally got on board with God and said, “Okay! Okay! I’ll go” he asked God for a sign to prove to the Israelites, and to Pharaoh, that God had sent him. I don’t know what Moses was expecting, but God’s response was, “What’s in your hand?”
What was in Moses’ hand? His shepherd’s staff. God said He would use that. God took something ordinary Moses had used every day for years and made it extraordinary.
That staff eventually turned into a serpent before Pharaoh and his magicians. That staff, dipped into the Nile, turned the river to blood. That staff was lifted above the Red Sea and prompted it to part. Two million souls, with their animals and belongings, walked across the sea on dry ground.
What was in Moses’ hand? Nothing special. Just his old familiar tool. Just the thing he’d used for years. Just the thing he would never have expected God to use. But God did use it and delivered His people from 400 years of bondage. God used what was in Moses’ hand to accomplish His mighty purposes.
What’s in your hand, my friend?
That ordinary and familiar thing that you would never expect God to use—that is the thing He wants you to offer Him. Offer Him that little bit of ordinary, and watch Him do something extraordinary. Don’t feel like you have to be someone else to fulfill your divine potential and participate with God in accomplishing His will on earth. All you have to do is offer Him what You already have. It may not seem like much to you. It may not actually be much, but once offered to God Almighty, it will become something. Something powerful and life-changing for you and those whom God has called you to influence.
Your next right step is to offer Him your ordinary and watch Him turn it into something extraordinary. Okay, now go! What is in your hand?
Excerpt from The YES Adventure: Transform Your Life with One Word by Cathleen Zahradnik. Check it out here. If you’ve read the book, please leave a review on Amazon to help other people find it!