that in your hand

"What is that in your hand?"

This is a question asked by God himself to Moses .To start with, God didn’t need to ask it. We all know he knew what’s in Moses hand. God knows everything. He’s the one who created the tree from which this piece of wood came from. But then he still asked.

"What is that in your hand?"

“A staff.” he replied.

 

Moses acknowledged that he has something there.

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Fast forward.

Moses went to the stubborn King a lot of times until the King set them free drove them away. Then the Israelites went away as far as the Red Sea which they could not cross because they have no boats* then they saw the King pursuing them and they got afraid and panicked. Moses asked God what to do. God answered. 

 ^“Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.”

If you were Moses and God told you this, what would you do? Nothing to lose, eh? But it is still hard, right? Because logically, it doesn’t make sense. Normally, what would happen is that, you’ll burn a few calories and nothing else. The sea will remain a sea, the staff will remain a staff, etc. Plus, if you’re leading multitudes, you’ll look funny. But Moses was certain. It is God’s instruction.

So he obeyed. And so the unthinkable happened - the sea was divided and they crossed on dry land - with the “water walls” on their side; then freedom. 

WEW.

AS IN WEW.

AS IN REALLY WEW.

Now imagine if Moses had a rock instead of a staff. Do you think the story would have a different ending? What if Moses had ink? or a tissue paper? or a heavy machinegun? or a glass? Or Moses had empty hands? Would that hinder God from freeing his people? I don’t think so.

In fact, I don’t think God needed Moses at all to free his people. But He wants to use him. God is giving Moses this oh-so-great privilege of partnering with him as he fulfills his will in his life, and in the life of other people.

AWESOME.

Let’s repeat that part in case you slid through it.

God is giving Moses this oh-so-great privilege of partnering with Him as He fulfils His will in his life, and in the life of other people.

Let me tweak that sentence.

God is giving     (Insert your name if you believe in Jesus)    this oh-so-great privilege of partnering with Him as He fulfills His will in his/her life, and in the life of other people.

God is giving us that same privilege. Like Moses, what we have may seem useless; but the truth is, those things in your hand don’t matter. If you want to be used by God, all you have to do is to be faithful and obey God with what he wants you to do with those. If you have pen in your hand, be faithful with that pen. If you have an exam in your hand, be faithful with that exam; because the truth is, if you’ll be faithful with those, you’ll have God’s will fulfilled in your life and possibly, in the lives of the people around you.

So, what is that in your hand again? 

Notes:

*my addition 

All bold Italicized texts are taken from the Bible, NIV translation

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