“Are you more likely to be used than a stick?”
I’ve been listening to a sermon series going verse by verse through the book of Exodus. Pastor Kevin Hass of By Grace Community Church in Newport News, Va does not mince his words and chooses them carefully.
“Are you more likely to be used than a stick?”
I was dumbstruck when I heard that sentence. Well, of course I am.
In Exodus 4:1-9 God is conversing with Moses at the famous burning bush. Moses is doubting, whether or not the people will believe him or even just listen to him. HE IS ENCOUNTERING THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE GREAT I AM, AND STILL, HE DOUBTS.
It’s incredible. It doesn’t make me feel so bad when I question my ability to be used by God.
God asked Moses to take the simplest thing he owns, a stick, and throw it on the ground. It became a serpent.
God said take your hand and put it inside your cloak. He did and when he pulled it out, it came out leperous.
It was just a piece of wood that Moses happened to pick up one day while walking.
It was just a hand that Moses had happened to be carrying with him all of his life.
It doesn’t matter what you think you have or haven’t got to offer. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. If God can use a stick, a cloak, and a bush to reveal His love and glory, how much more can He use you, someone He loves, someone He died for, someone He lives for, someone He created in His own image? In God’s hands, these simple things, they do marvelous things. The river turns to blood, rocks give forth their water, and blood stops death angels.
Let me repeat that.
The river turns to blood, rocks give forth their water, and blood stops death angels!!!!
How crazy is that!? Can you just imagine if you allowed Him to use you?
People of God, how much more are we created with love and care than a stick?!
How much more does God want to use you to demonstrate His love and His Glory and His mercy than a stick!?
We are men and women who were created to be men of God and women of God. We are made for so much more. We are capable of so much more when we surrender ourselves, just as we are, to God’s hands.
Moses was scared that the people of God wouldn’t believe that He met with God because he talked to a bush in the middle of the Midian wilderness.
People of God, do you believe that God is who is says He is or are you too concerned with what others will think? Will you surrender to the call placed on your life or are you still doubting in the wilderness while God is talking to you from your personal 'burning bush'?
People of God, can you just believe that you are more likely to be used than a stick?
In His Glorious Love,
Brittney
P.S. If you would like to listen to the sermon that inspired this blog, go to:
http://www.bygraceonline.org/wp/resources/sermons
and click on Exodus Series. Enjoy!
P.P.S. I have another blog speaking specifically about ministry here in Malaysia coming. It was just on my heart to share this truth that rocked my own little world.
P.P.P.S. Be sure to check out my other blog for photos! 🙂
http://theadventureofexistence.blogspot.com
