In My Hand

It’s nearing the end of the year, and we will change our calendar to 2016.  Changes occurred last year, and I’m sure more changes are coming in the new year.  So let’s look at the word “change” in the bible as we move forward leaving one year behind, anticipating a new one that’s coming…

The first mention of God changing something is when Moses obeyed God’s commands and made all sorts of changes in order to move Pharoah towards letting God’s people go, out of slavery.

In Exodus 7, we read,

Then say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.  This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.  The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.

Moses was given a staff and he was given orders by God to take it and strike the water in the river, and then watch it change to blood.  In fact, that change caused the fish to die, the river to stink, and the water to no longer be drinkable.

This year, we have God with us, and he has given us things in our hands to carry, to lead our families.  Maybe it’s not a staff, but we have jobs, homes, talents, and treasures.  And maybe our families are in some sort of bondage, and we long to see our children set free.

God can take whatever is in our hands, when we offer it to him, to cause our enemies (fear, addiction, lust, etc.) to be affected by our obedience to him.  If he says to use what’s in our hand, and we obey, we will see changes that occur.

God changed the river into blood, in order to destroy the enemy of the people, by cutting off their source of life.

God will change our circumstances too, when we take what’s in our hand, offer it to him, and obey.