This week, we come to our final question of this series: WHAT IS THAT IN YOUR HAND?
This question echoes (or foreshadows) one that Pastor Dottie preached on a couple weeks ago with the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000+ people with just a few loaves and fishes. While His disciples were panicking, Jesus urged them to share what they had and trust God for the rest. Similarly, in this story, God has called Moses out of his simple, quiet life to do something unbelievable–to confront the most powerful ruler in the land and demand freedom for his people. Naturally, Moses has many objections and excuses to this intimidating calling, and God amazingly accommodates those, but also asks Moses a question. What is that in your hand? What is in his hand is an ordinary, everyday tool; an unremarkable shepherd’s staff. But what can God do with our small and ordinary things? We ask God many questions, but God also has questions like this for us. How will we respond? Will we let God work through us?