In My Drawer

If you look into one of my kitchen drawers you will find an array of tools that help, or are supposed to, with preparation of meals or general cooking. They assist in jobs such as peeling vegetables, coring fruits, separating egg yolk and whites, cutting shapes or just holding an egg up right. Without these things cooking is a little bit difficult but no impossible. Some of these tools I see as being really useless but they are still sitting in my drawer. I very rarely get them out and put them to use. Sometimes it’s because I don’t really know how they should work or I can’t be bothered.

I’ve been thinking about the passage where Moses argues with God about how he is not capable of carrying out the job that God has set before him. (Exodus 4:1-17) God keeps telling him that He will supply the skills/tools when he needs them. Moses continues to find reasons why he is unable to meet the challenge.

As servants of Christ we have a variety of tools available to us now more than ever. I find myself being a lot like Moses from time to time. I feel inadequate to meet the challenges of farming life, authorship and motherhood. Yet, as I look in the drawer of life I can see that has provided me with tools in the past. They are still in the drawer and I could be guilty of just leaving them there. All we need is faith in God to work for Him and yet God has provided us with so many tools. I still seem to be reluctant to grab hold of the power of God and move forward.

In Exodus 4:17 God says to Moses “And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.” I should do the same.