4-6-15. Exodus 4:1-5. Serve The Lord With What God Has Given You- Bible Shortz
4-6-15. Exodus 4:1-5. Serve The Lord With What God Has Given You- Bible Shortz
Kevin E. Jesmer
Simply being alive and having faith in Jesus is more than enough to serve God. Look at verses Exodus 4:1-5, “Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 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. 5 “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.” When Moses told God, “No one will listen to me”, God asked, “What is that in your hand?” Moses had his shepherd’s staff in his hand. God felt that was enough. He ordered Moses to throw it on the ground and it became a snake. God made this ordinary staff become an extraordinary sign to confirm God’s calling and Moses’ leadership.
God can use whatever we have in our “hands”. We don’t have to come up with all kinds of expensive equipment and tons of money and the latest in audio visual equipment. No. God can work with whatever you have. Because of this fact we should never despair about being able to serve God. Remember the passage about Jesus feeding the 5,000 men, plus women and children with five loaves and two fish. (John 6)? The disciples did not have many resources. All they could come up with is five loaves and two fish. When Andrew offered this miniscule offering to Jesus with faith and a prayer, Jesus did a miracle.
There is another passage where Jesus healed a man born blind. (John 9:1-12) He reached down and mixed mud and spit in his hands, smeared the wet mud in the man’s eyes and told the man to go and wash in the river. Then he would be healed of his blindness. Jesus could have healed the man in very comfortable and “cool” way by simply touching the man and healing him. But Jesus was teaching his disciples (and this man) something. One thing the disciples needed to learn was that as long as his disciples were alive they had spit. As long as they were walking on this planet, they had mud. They always had Jesus with them and they could pray. There was nothing stopping them from doing the work of God….nothing.
Moses was eighty years old. He had rags for clothes. He lost the benefits of his Egyptian schooling. He had a few sheep and some aging family members. These are not much to be the deliverer of millions of people. But he had a staff in his hands. (He also had spit and mud and faith.) That was enough. God was going to use that staff, now and later on, in great ways. Simply being alive and having faith in Jesus is more than enough to serve our Lord Jesus and live according to God’s calling in our lives.
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