Have you ever felt like the Israelites did when they left Egypt, trekked to the Red Sea, had the Egyptians following them and no place to run? Can you imagine the dreams that they had, the freedom they felt, the hope and joy they experienced at being freed….at last! And then….oh hello Red Sea!!

Have you ever felt that way with the dreams and desires in your heart?

It seems like your dreams are unfolding and there is a way ahead, so you go at it full steam and suddenly there is an overwhelming “ocean” in your way that appears insurmountable, impossible, discouraging, dream killing?

In these times, don’t we all, like the Israelites cry out to God and blame other people and circumstances? Don’t we sometimes feel like giving up, like our dream has just been shattered, like we got it all wrong? We doubt ourselves and we doubt God, frustrated at the thought that we must have misheard, must have misinterpreted Him.

Do we fail to see what is in our hand? Do we see and imagine how things should be instead of being open to how God will unravel our dreams and desires? We can see the end result without walking the road to that end result. We miss the big because we ignore the small?

God asked Moses what was in his hand.
Exodus 4:2 “Then the Lord asked him ‘What is that in your hand?”

Moses had a stick (staff) in his hand and God used it and the results were WOW! Beyond WOW!!

If we choose to see what is in our hand, are faithful with what is in our hand and extend what is in our hand to God, will He not use it just like he used Moses’ stick?
Will God not use what we extend to Him to bring our miracle?

Even if it seems insignificant, useless, irrelevant, worthless, small, unusable, unexplainable – What is in your hand?