Just give Him what you have and start there...

God uses what we have.  But, until we offer “it” up to Him, He can’t use it at all.

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.

The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground…  -Exodus 4:1-3

I stop there because really that’s all we need.  “Moses threw it on the ground.”  He offered up to God what was literally in his hand and God used it because He could…because Moses was no longer holding onto it.

I’ve heard from a lot of different people how “impressed” they are that I’m here in Kenya for a whole year.  But to be honest with you, in my mind, it’s much more difficult than it is impressive.  It’s been really hard, sometimes it has felt like it’s too hard.  But every day I’m reminded by God to simply take what’s in my hand and offer it up to Him to use however He chooses.  That’s how I got here to Kenya – it was a step of me taking what was in my “hand”, a passion that wouldn’t die after years of trying to put it off, and giving it up to God only to see Him open doors that I had convinced myself would be impossible to open.

I feel ill-equipped most days.  I feel over my head.  I feel overwhelmed by my surroundings and the things I’m hearing and seeing.  And I am ill-equipped and over my head.  But God doesn’t call people because they’re qualified, He only calls us to take what’s in our hand, give it to Him, and watch Him do amazing things with it.

Perhaps you’re feeling ill-equipped today.  Maybe you feel like you’re in a place that you’re not even being used by God.  Can I ask you a question: What’s that in your hand?  AND, have you offered it up to God?

Sometimes what’s in our hand doesn’t look very pretty to us.  Maybe it looks useless in our eyes, but we serve a God who’s in the business of taking ordinary things and making something extraordinary out of it!  God wants us to simply bring Him what we have and start there.  And if you’re willing to do that, it’s been my experience that He shows up.