You Have Everything You Need
Exodus 4: Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they
will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say,
‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ”
2 So the Lord said to him,
“What is that in your hand?”
He said, “A rod.”
3 And He said, “Cast it on the
ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled
from it. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses,
“Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached
out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), 5 “that
they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
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Moses, being unsure of himself, asked GOD “What if they
don’t believe me?” GOD had just told Moses to go get HIS people out of Egypt.
Moses needed some confirmation.
My Observations:
- Moses
felt insignificant, inadequate and inferior to the Egyptians who had
armies, wealth and power.
- GOD
asked Moses a question that HE knew the answer to, but wanted Moses to
self-discover what HE was about to do.
- GOD
turned the rod into a serpent to convince Moses that HE can do anything
and that serpents are under HIS authority.
“You have everything you need,” seems to be the message GOD
was giving to Moses. “All you need is the stick you have in your hand and I
will do the rest,” is what I’m getting from this demonstration of power. I
believe you and I underestimate the true power of GOD.
When we try to steer GOD by telling HIM what we need, we
miss the point that HE has already provided us with everything we need. GOD was
about to use a rod to defeat the Egyptians who were mistreating other humans.
When you have GOD you have all you need.
Challenge
- Why
does GOD remind Moses about the conversation HE had with him about the
rod?
- Do
you sometimes feel inadequate to take on large challenges GOD may want you
to take on?
- Will
you trust GOD and know you have everything you need to defeat the giant
you are facing?
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