Journey 2-11-08

“How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.” When they found out they said, “Five – and two fish.” Mark 6:38

“Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.” Exodus 4:1-2

I’ve really been blessed by the sermons the last couple of weeks at church. Last week Pastor Phil preached on how God can take what you have and make it into something that you never could, for his glory. Two examples of this were the feeding of the five thousand and Moses.

In Mark we see that Jesus challenged the disciples to find out what they had. Then, when they brought Jesus what they had, he took five ordinary loaves of bread and two fish and made it into a meal to feed five thousand men plus women and children. God took what was offered and made something extraordinary out of it.

In Exodus we see God teaching the same lesson to Moses. He asked Moses what it was that he had. A simple wooden staff was not much to look at, but in God’s hands it could become a snake or turn the waters to blood.

It is an encouraging thing to remember that God can do extraordinary things with a simple offering of what we have. If we offer ourselves, our very lives to Jesus, then He can make something amazing out of it, something that we never could bring about on our own.