What’s in Your Hand?
26th August 2020
September is usually the time when we get back to our normal routines after the summer break. With the current coronavirus pandemic, it’s very different this year! However, it is still a good time to consider how God can use us to make a real difference in our workplace, school, family, friends and community. He equips us with everything we need to make His love known
When God gave Moses the job of bringing the Israelites out of Egypt, He asked the question, "What is in your hand?"(Exodus 4:2). Moses was holding his staff, which represented his livelihood (what he was good at); his resources (his flock represented his wealth) and his security (which God was asking him to lay down). God asks the same question of us: What has God given you? Our gifts, temperament, experience, relationships, mind, education can be used in the work God has given us to do. How will we use them to make a difference in the places where He calls us to serve Him?
John Ortberg, in his book It All Goes Back in the Box, speaks of Johnny, a 19-year-old with Down's syndrome. He worked at a supermarket checkout putting people’s items into bags. To encourage his customers, he decided to put a thought for the day into the bags. Every night his dad would help him to prepare the slips of paper and he would put the thoughts into the bags saying, "I hope it helps you have a good day. Thanks for coming here". A month later the store manager noticed that Johnny’s line at the checkout was three times longer than anyone else’s! People wanted Johnny’s thought for the day. He wasn’t just filling bags with groceries; he was filling lives with hope!
What has God given you that will help and encourage others?
Parish Pump
also published in Parish Life
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