What's in Your Hand?

A long time ago, these was this 80-year-old guy working for his father-in-law tending to animals. Being an anti-social (or more correctly, “asocial”), he usually hung out by himself in the backyard. One evening, God suddenly appeared before him and said, hey Moses, I want you to be the leader of your people and get them out of Egypt to escape slavery and to live in this awesome land I promised to you guys’ ancestor a while back. So Moses did, after giving all kinds of excuses one could possibly think of.

Why didn’t God come to Moses 40 years earlier, when he was in his prime, fully ready to bring justice and make a difference? Why now, when Moses was already a 80-year old man who liked to give condescending looks to millennials and their silly gadgets? No longer the muscular Egyptian prince, Moses was now a frail old man with nothing but a shepherd’s stick in his hand. So why now?

It’s so easy for us to include God in our own plans. But it’s much more rewarding to put ourselves in God’s plans. God didn’t need the primetime Moses. God called to Moses when He had plans for him, and when that time came, a simple shepherd’s stick was enough. As grad students, we all have different knowledge and skillsets. What matters is whether we are willing to be included in God’s plans, to utilize the different abilities we each have for His sake.

So what’s in your hands?

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