Glorify God with What He Has Placed in Your Hand
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There is a beautiful concept found in the life of Moses. God gives Moses a staff when he goes before Pharaoh with his brother Aaron. Moses was instructed to use what was in his hand to reveal the existence and glory of Yahweh. When we ponder this concept, we can begin to reflect on our own lives and what the Lord has entrusted to us. We can learn from the life of Moses.
What’s in your hand? What has God given you? Is it a paint brush? An instrument? A confident voice? Great strength? Amazing patience? An ability to think through problems? Whatever the Lord has entrusted to you, give it back to Him. He is your Creator and you are His creation who is modeling and pointing the world to His existence and His sacrifice for all sins. Don’t waste your talents by setting them aside. Allow Christ to work through you for the benefit of the church body, the blessing of those around you, and to meet needs that come into your path.
We can examine our own lives and see the strength and the passion which the Lord has given to us. We each have at least one “staff” that we too are carrying. Whatever it is that God has given to us, we can give it back to Him by the ways that we use our giftings. Whether we are in a Christian atmosphere or a secular setting, we can point to the Savior’s love in our work, our hobbies, and in our homes.
It was this staff that God used by Moses to plague Egypt ten times. It was this staff that would later divide the Red Sea, to give the final steps towards freedom from the Hebrew’s oppressors.
At the moment of a sudden pause in their escape, the people of God came to the Red Sea and thought that they were going to be captured by the Egyptians. However, the Lord made a way through the sea. Exodus 14:16 says, “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.” God used Moses’ staff to make a way for those in need of freedom.
This causes us to ponder that just like the Lord used Moses’ staff to bring people from slavery to freedom, that God can still use what is in our hands today to point people to Jesus, Who can free them from the slavery of sin and death and provide salvation and eternal life in Heaven. You have a greater purpose in your giftings and skills. Do not waste what is in your hand. If we can humbly lay our skillsets before the Lord and ask Him to use them for His kingdom work, we can be confident that He will.
Galatians 5:1 says it best, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
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