Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” Exodus 4:2
The key to your future often lies with what’s already in your hands.
When God spoke to Moses from a burning bush, he presented him
with an opportunity. At first, it was overwhelming to Moses. God was
asking Moses to approach the Pharaoh to demand that he let the
Israelites go.
At first, Moses couldn’t fathom how this was going to work. He asked
God what he should do if no one listened to him, a lowly shepherd who had spent the last 40 years of his life leading nothing but sheep on the back side of the desert. And what did God say in response? “What is that in your hand?”
We know God didn’t need to ask. He knew that Moses was holding
his shepherd’s rod, which he used to herd sheep. I believe God was drawing Moses’s attention away from his lack and onto the skills and experience he had.
Moses’s rod is a symbol that’s featured all throughout the story of
the Israelite’s journey to freedom, and it makes a powerful point. You
see, when we allow God to use what’s in our hands, he adds his supernatural power to our natural skills and abilities, and that’s when the miraculous happens.
If you want to see a change in your future, start with what’s in your hand. What skills do you have? What knowledge? What resources?
Something as insignificant as a shepherd’s rod led to the freedom of millions. I wonder what God will do with what’s in your hand?