Dear Friend,
Yesterday morning I received a revelation in regards to Moses' relationship with God. God's favorite words to speak to Moses were "Stretch out your hands..." Every miraculous act Moses was every apart of required him stretching out his hands.
When the Lord first came to Moses: (Exodus 4:2-5)
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."
I feel this is where we have our disconnect with the Lord. The Lord is saying, "What is that in your hand?"
First of all, God already knows what is in our hand so he is not asking this so that he may gain more information. He is saying this so that we may draw our attention to that which is in our hand. We do not find these things in our hands just by accident. They are there for a reason and God is wanting to put them to work.
Many of us have allowed the things in our hands to become our idol and the focus of our life. It's like a guitar in a musicians hand, a scapple in a doctors, or a ball in an athletes. These items are given not to consume our lives and be the primary focus but to be the very tools in which God, our father and creator, will use through us to show his great power.
The Lord asked Moses to throw it on the ground. Release the very thing you hold dear to your life and the thing that you hide behind and that you find comfort in. The Lord had Moses do this not because the thing he was holding was bad, but without God's touch it is lacking the power to have any impact. When Moses released the Rod, God transformed it and made it something more. And then he asked Moses to pick it up and told him that it would be used to show that the Lord had appeared to him and given him a purpose.
Like I stated earlier,the Lord is asking, "What is that in your hand?" Whatever it is God has placed it there and is asking you to submit it to Him so that it will become exactly what is should be in your hands. These are the acts of living out a meaningful life
1) Recognizing what is in our hand
2) Throwing it down in front of the Lord
3) Picking it up after the Lord has transformed it
4) Stretch out your hands!
I hope this revelation impacts your life and I will write more on this topic soon!
'Til next time...
Love,
Robert
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