What is your ordinary tool of trade - that which you use either in your career, hobby, or interest? Is is a calculator? A guitar? A fishing rod? For Moses it was a staff. He was a shepherd.
When God called Moses he did not give him a new instrument of calling. He did not say to Moses, "For the past forty years you have had this staff and it is worthless to me. I want to give you a calculator, through which you will lead Israel out of bondage." The trajectory of Moses' life was matched with God's Call on his life. It was a shoe-in. The shepherd's staff - a part of Moses' daily ordinary life - became the agent through which God's incarnational Presence became real. Our calculators, guitars, or fishing rods have the ability to do great things for the Lord, as live into his Call for our us.
This November we will trace the footsteps of Moses and cover about 40 years of his life in the span of a few days. We will squint our eyes at the same sun he squinted at, we will taste and grit our teeth around the same desert sand the same desert sand he tasted, we will gaze at the same stars he gazed at, we will tabernacle in the same places he tabernacled at, and we will climb the same mountain he climbed - the very place where the instrument of his ordinary became the lightening rod of God's will.
Come, participate, and bless us with your presence!
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