Then the Lord said to Moses,” What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.” Exodus 4:2
Our “mundane” has the potential to become a tool of the miraculous, providing, of course, our "mundane" is operated in obedience to the call of God.
I often think of Jesus’ first miracle, a wedding in Cana. In that situation, water became a powerful tool where-with many became aware of the goodness of God. Even today, some 2000 years later, we are encouraged by this miracle and even yearn that the Lord would change our water to wine, our mundane to the miraculous.
Moses had a staff. It was a simple tool of his trade – shepherding. On its own, it was a stick. Yet, under the Moses’ obedience to the call of God in his life, it became the very instrument of redemption. It fulfilled the purposes of God in the life of Moses.
We often look for the perfect instrument of God’s call. Sometimes it’s a book, a class, an experience, or a new “something.” When that happens, we say, that’s when God will really take over and use me. But that wasn’t the case with Moses. He already had what it took to fulfill the promise of God in his life. He may have had it for years. It wasn’t a matter of getting the new book, guitar, buy a new car, attend a class, or even get an experience in God. For in the light of his Light, even our most mundane articles are transfigured into instruments of the miraculous.
Holy Father, forgive me for thinking you need something more than I have to do your work. As I present my heart before your call on my life, use me – and use all I currently own as instruments of the miraculous. May my water be transformed into the wine of your redemption, for all to see. In Christ I pray. Amen.
