“What Is That In Your
Hand?”
Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me
and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?”
Then
the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A
staff,” he replied.
The
LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses
threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the LORD
said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached
out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
“This,” said the LORD, “is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of
their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has
appeared to you.”
Exodus 4:1-5
When
we are afraid to lead, we sometimes forget that God is with us. Remember, He
will equip us.
Moses
had a shepherd’s rod. God showed Moses he could use this ordinary staff to
perform miracles as a sign for unbelieving people.
What’s
in your own hand?
You can’t change the past, but you will ruin the present by
worrying about the future.
Our Daily Bread –