Day 7

Exodus 4:1-5
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 and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
"This," said the LORD, "is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob--has appeared to you."

God put forth a plan for Moses' life, a plan that Moses didn't have for his own life. Moses questioned God and God's plan for his life just like I do. Just like me - he thought God must have been crazy. How could God use me, a person who has messed up over an over. A person who has spit in his face a number of times by my actions of sin, mistrust, control, and unbelief.

"Perhaps God was giving Moses a vivid picture of how the things we fear - the memories and doubts that poison our future, that lie between us and where God wants us to go - need to be confronted head-on. Perhaps God was helping Moses understand the deep guilt, forgotten hopes, and lost dreams of the past can be either a snake on the ground intimidating you or, through his power and grace, a rod in the hand." - Robbins, Enjoy The Silence

"God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves." - Paul Tillich