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Last week, I presented that it was the rod in the hand of Moses that carried the authority and the anointing to part the Red Sea before the Israelites at their passage from the season of their past to the season of their present in their path of destiny. The rod in the hand of Moses was not the rod that he held in his hand when he was an Egyptian prince. It was not the rod that he held in his hand when he was a shepherd of sheep in the wilderness. It was a rod of deliverance! Where did it come from? How did Moses get this rod?
To receive the rod of deliverance, Moses had to have an experience with God in his day in the wilderness. Without an experience with God in his wilderness, his path as a deliverer would have led him to the rod of an Egyptian prince – a rod of a past season in his life. We must know that in this season of 2020/2021, God has been working things for our good. God is calling us into a fresh season as His people in the earth. We cannot return to the season of our past. If we return to church, or church leadership, as it has been we will be bound to a season of the past. If we embrace what is being given to us in the present circumstances of today, we will be bound to the condition of our present world. We must receive a rod of God’s kingdom come and His will being done now to move forward into what God has for us today.
Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.'” 2 So the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.” 3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So, he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),
The rod that Moses was familiar with, the rod that Moses had depended upon in the past season of His life, had to become something new in the season of his present. God doesn’t want us to be someone that we are not, but he does want us to be willing to let go of what we held on to yesterday to pick up what He has for us today. Moses had to be willing to let go of the thing that was comfortable for him. The thing that worked for him was what was to be destiny in his hand, but he had to be willing to let it go. Holding on to the rod of a shepherd in the wilderness, would bind him to a season of his wilderness. The rod he carried was the thing he had leaned upon. He had learned to depend upon it to live in his present world. He had to let go of it, however. He couldn’t hold on to it. He had to cast it into the hands of God and let God bring life to it. The mundane had to take on the life of God. I believe that this is prophetically true for us in this present season in our world as the people of God. We must be willing to let go of some things we have been doing in order to pick up what God wants us to do now!
Whatever it is that God has called us to do is in our hands right now. No matter what stage it might be in, or what form it might take, in our hands is the destiny that God has called us to. Sometimes we fail to see it because we are holding on to it so tight, and we fail to give it to God to let it serve Him in the way that is relevant for today. We fail to give it to God and let God change it to what is necessary for today. When Moses threw his rod upon the ground it became a serpent. It appeared to be something that was a little scary. He would have perhaps rejected it in the past, but he had to be willing to pick it up in his present. He had to be willing to pick up what he threw down, even though its appearance was totally different than what he threw upon the ground. The secret was not merely in his ability to throw his rod upon the ground, but in his personal encounter with the presence of God in the burning bush.
What is in your hand? What are you responsible for? What is God calling you to be responsible for? How can you serve God with who you are and what you have today? How can you put what you have been depending upon into the hands of God and trust it to be God when it becomes something you don’t think you have seen before?
We must take what we have held on to in our past and put it in God’s hand and let Him bring life to it. What worked for us yesterday is found in the rod as it was yesterday, but what works today is found in what God makes the rod to be today. What is it that works for us today that is filled with the life that God is putting into it? Moses didn’t get a new rod. He got a transformed rod. What he held in his hand didn’t change who he was, it merely drew out another measure of who he really was for his path of destiny in life. God isn’t asking us to be someone we are not, but if we aren’t willing to grab hold of what God is putting life in today, we will be dwarfed to become who we always have been in our path of destiny.
God, help us to find You in the burning bush of our present reality. Give us faith to lay down what we think is our strength so we can find what You are putting Your blessing and life in today for the sake of those we influence in our world. The secret to our today is the rod in our hands today, but the secret to finding that rod is finding a fresh consuming presence of you in our lives. Only Your presence in our lives can empower the passion of our hearts for all that You desire today. Don’t let what You have done in our lives before be a greater flame than who You are today! Don’t let our preconceived ideas for tomorrow be a greater desire than the desire we have for You that inspires whatever You desire in our lives today. Renew us for such a day as this!
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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