Day 29 - What is that in your hand?

Every single one of us has a place in this world where we can be, as people, perfectly expressed. It seems as though there is a place for you to fill which no one else can occupy, something that you are to do, which no one else can achieve; it is where you belong.

God says, "What is that in your hand?" Moses was having some difficulty understanding how he might convince the Israelites that God had particularly selected him to lead them out of Egypt. He knew that he was not by nature a born leader and so he asked God to choose someone else instead for the role. It was then that God referred to the staff in Moses's hand and told him to throw it on the ground whereupon it turned into a snake and Moses, again understandably, ran away from it in fear.

However, obedient to the voice in front of him in the burning bush, he plucked up all his courage and picked up that same frightening snake by the tail; it turned back into a staff in his hand.

This, together with other signs that God gave to Moses, was to convince both him and the Israelites that God was going to release his people and that Moses was his vehicle for achieving that end.

Finally, in obedience, Moses started back to Egypt, taking the staff of God in his hand, assured of God's protection. He went on to lead his people out of Egypt and into the promised land.

Like Moses, you have a place on this earth to fill and something you have to do. You may struggle with it, much as Moses did, but that task, that 'something', is the staff that is in your hand. You can choose, if you so wish, to ignore it.

God lifts us into life, and lets us fall just in the niche we were ordained to fill. So what is your niche? The destiny of every human being depends on our relationship to Jesus Christ. It is not dependant on our relationship to life, or on our service or our usefulness, but simply and solely on our relationship to Jesus Christ. That relationship will determine that we must take what is in our hand and, in obedience to God, fulfil that particular task that no one else can fill.

It is not that you have been divinely pre-programmed for this task in life and have no choice in the matter; rather it is a God-inspired purpose which you can accept or reject.

Moses took up what was in his hand - a God-inspired awakening and a destiny that was uniquely his. All that happened to Jesus was part of God's plan, yet Jesus in his humanity, had to willingly surrender himself wholly and entirely to God's will, as we must do.