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Recognizing Your Resources
Exodus 4:2-3 '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.'(NIV)
 When God asks us questions, he does it to change our perceptions. In this verse, God is challenging Moses to think differently about his resources. God called Moses to stand before the most powerful king in the world and command him to release his people from slavery. But Moses is thinking, 'how can I give orders to a Pharoah, a king with enormous power, from a place of weakness?' God's question points to an important life lesson. 'Moses,' God is saying, 'what you have today is enough. You don't need anything more than I have already placed within you. Those whom I call I also equip to fulfil the call.' Sometimes, after we've been working with God on some great venture for a while, we start to wonder if God really knew what he was doing when he asked us to get involved. We just don't seem to have what it takes to fulfil the call. But God knows us better than we know ourselves -- and he knows the end from the beginning. What we learn about ourselves as we go along, God has already seen well in advance. There is no need for us to fear the consequences of obedience to God. He has already made sure that we have enough within us, by his power, to complete the task. You may only have a wooden staff in your hand, but when you throw that staff down in obedience, God's power takes over, turning that natural equipment into something supernatural.
Prayer: 'Lord, sometimes I don't feel that I have much in my hand that you can use. But I know that you were well aware of my weaknesses when you first called me. So, please take the resources I have and use them in some supernatural way, as I obey you.'
© 2003-2004 Mal Fletcher
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