* This has been a draft since January 29th,
briefly posted then on my social network page,
made available on this blog just today. :)
“WHAT’S
THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND?” has been a resounding question, from the songs I hear, blogs I read and different accounts from the
Bible brought to remembrance.
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What’s
that you have in your hand,
MOSES? A staff (Exodus 4:2)
SHAMGAR?
An oxgoad (Judges 3:31)
SAMSON? A fresh jawbone of a donkey (Judges 15:16)
WIDOW at ZAREPATH? A handful of flour & a little oil (1 Kings 17:12)
LITTLE BOY? 5 small barley loaves & 2 small fish (John 6:3)
These
little things in their hands were used to do the impossible, perform the
miracles, do the wonders, etc. ~ ALL on God's account:
Staff
That
very same staff that Moses had had changed all the water of Nile into blood.
And the same staff parted the Red Sea.
Oxgoad
Shamgar,
with an oxgoad, struck down six hundred Philistines.
Jawbone
Samson,
finding and grabbing a fresh jawbone of a donkey, struck down a thousand men.
Flour & Oil
The
widow at Zarepath’s a handful of flour and a little oil in a jug did not
run dry.
5 Loaves & 2 Fish
The
loaves and the fish were able to feed about five thousand men (beside women and
children). More so, at the end, twelve baskets with the pieces of the five
barley loaves left over were gathered(!)
On
these accounts we see, as an application, God, to fulfill His purposes doesn’t
ask for what we do not have. But, He asks for what we (already) do have. Once
we know, once we make it available at His disposal, then we witness the miracle
of the moment. Isn’t it a grand thing to see the least at its greatest on the very time it was set? J
I've
still got so many things on my head but as a reflection in a nutshell, the
question remains the same,
“What’s
that you have in your hand?”
