God’s Mighty Hand

 Exodus 3-5; Luke 22 

“’But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians…I will make the Egyptians favorable disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed…take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.’…And he took the staff of God in his hand.”

Exodus 3:19, 20, 21; 4:17, 20

God’s mission requires God’s mighty hand on our lives. The same hand which compelled Pharaoh to release the Jews empowers God’s servants today. When we live for our own prosperity and dreams, our lives are in our own hands. When we submit to the hand of the Lord, our lives become extensions of God’s hand. Moses’ staff, once surrendered to the Lord, became the staff of God used to both reveal God’s power and his presence. The skills, capacities, and activities of our hands can become extensions and expressions of God’s redeeming and saving power.

Are we in the hands of God?

Have we opened our hands to the Lord so he can fill them?

“Lord God, I humble myself under your mighty hand and thank you for your deliverance, protection, provision, and blessing this day, for your glory.”