Exodus 4:2
What is that in your hand?
Many sermons have been shared about this verse. I has a lot of meaning for me because when I look at myself, it challenges me to always commit what I have for God: Time.
I can't play instruments to save my life, I'm not keen to be a missionary or work full time, but I do have time to serve the purposes of God. Sure, it can also be used for my own personal pleasure and I can do "better" things such as live my own life. But when I stare at the lines on my palms, I know I'm better off giving away the time I am given.
When God never asks this question, I'm sure he already knows the answer of what we hold deepest to us. So we can learn to surrender and be purposefully transformed.
Yet, I answer this question differently today. I hold in my hand a few lives that are of utmost importance to me. So important they are that I hold tighter than anything I possess. Much like a child who catches a small grasshopper in his hands and goes to show his father, I often bring it to show God that this is what I have in my hands because I want Him to see, acknowledge and bless.
Time that I possess of this life, I've given. Today I have individuals that I hold tightly in my hands. I commit and let them go in Your presence like Moses did with his rod because what is dead will be made alive.
M.
