Take your staff and throw it in front of Pharaoh, it will become a serpent. – Exodus 7:9

I was looking at this story in the Bible and it appears to be the only time Aaron or Moses’ rod did anything in and of itself.  Aaron’s rod did sprout and miraculously produce almonds as well.  It was this particular rod that was place in the Ark of the Covenant.  The majority of the time, the rod was simply in the hands of its owner while God performed mighty signs and wonders.  

I was kind of down recently and went on one of my prayer walks.  I was simply telling God how sorry I was that I felt like I wasted the entire year of 2024.  My mind kept going back to times when I felt really used by God.  When I got home, I read an old sermon about a stick.  The stick was the rod of Moses.  The stick was simply in the hand of Moses when the Nile turned to blood and the Red Sea parted.  There was nothing special about the stick itself, but the stick is mentioned because of who owned it.

2024 wasn’t necessarily a horrible year, I just spent too much of it chasing money.  Up until that year, I had only taken extra jobs out of a willingness to help when help was needed.  For some weird prayerless reason, I started taking jobs simply to make a lot of money.  Even though it worked, I basically bled money that year.  So many different and unusual things happened that caused me to pay for things that were not normal expenses.  When I finally brought it to the Lord, He simply said, “I’m not going to let something as trivial as extra money be a source of comfort to you, I supply all your needs according to my riches in glory.”   I immediately felt like a fool, He was the shortest and simplest prayer away the whole time.  

So far, in 2025, I have simply been a stick in His hand.  He can do with me as He wills.  Even if I do something that I look back on years from now as great in the eyes of the Lord, it is only because I was in His hands to begin with. 

Lord, help me to simply exist in You.  You are the greatest thing ever happen to me.  I can go to work today and simply be a stick in Your hands.  If I wasn’t in Your hand, I’d be as useless as any other stick just lying in the woods unable to do anything on my own.  You’ve saved me, You’ve raised me, and You have filled me with the Holy Ghost.  Help me to always be mindful of You and help me to always ask before I do the simplest things.  Help me go to work and make a difference in the lives of others.  I want to take as many as I can to heaven with me.  Only if I am in Your hands is any of it even possible.  I praise You, Lord.  There is none like You.  Amen.