One of the most common excuses that people seem to give for not doing something great for God (or at least trying something great) is that they don’t have BLANK, but if and when they get BLANK, then they will do what God wants them to do.
However, if we are not faithful with what we have NOW, then how in the world is He supposed to trust us with what He wants NEXT?
“But Perry,” you say, “I don’t have anything to offer. Our church doesn’t have what other churches have.”
I say “nonsense!”
This thought occurred to me the other day when I was reading through the book of Exodus and read through the exchange between God and Moses. God told Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the people of Israel go.
Moses freaked out, and understandably so…this was a BIG DEAL! How in the world could Moses do this? He had been on the backside of the desert for 40 years! He had actually murdered a man the last time he was in Egypt. He had never led anything other than a flock of sheep! This thing was way larger than anything he had ever participated in.
And so finally, he asks God (Exodus 4:1) something like, “OK, God, what if these people don’t believe me? After all, this whole burning bush thing is over the top…but I left my iPhone back at the house and cannot put this experience on Instagram so that the people will see how incredible it is. They are not going to believe me!”
The Lord simply replied in “. . . what is that in your hand?”
Moses told him it was a staff (like God didn’t know), and then God proceeded to use the staff that Moses had in his hand to bring about an incredible miracle.
