BY:
KAY DILLS
Last Sunday our Pastor’s sermon was titled: “What Cha’ Got There?” He used the example of Moses found in exodus 4:2.
So the Lord said to him,
“What is that in your hand?”
He said “A rod.“
His point was that God could take the ordinary and make it extraordinary.
As I listened to the pastor’s message, he asked the question again: “What cha’ got there?” I looked down and said to myself: “I have a pen.” Suddenly I realized that God was calling me. He was telling me to use that pen to write His message.
The service concluded with the singing of the hymn “Take My Life And Let it Be” by Frances Havergal. It was in 1873 when Frances realized something was missing in her Christian experience. She realized that “There must be full surrender before there can be full blessedness”. I had gone for sometime without putting God’s word on paper. I had not used the gift He had given me. Like Frances, something was missing in my Christian experience. The words of her hymn kept going through my mind.
Take my life and let it be
Consecrated Lord to Thee.
Take my hands and let them move,
At the impulse of Thy love,
At the impulse of Thy love.
God was telling me to use that pen I had in my hand and use it to glorify His name.
God created each of us differently and has given all of us a gift. So, “What cha’ got there?. Many of you have beautiful voices. Use those voices to sing, always only for your King. Use your lips to tell the message of Jesus. Remember, “God can take an ordinary thing and make it extraordinary.
You may think that you don’t have a gift. It is not only the big things, but also the small things that matter to God. A simple phone call or a, I am thinking of you card, that means so much. It is those random acts of kindness that makes God smile. Little is much when God is in it.
Is something missing in your Christian experience?
Are you listening when He calls?
Have you taken “what cha’ got” and used it for His Glory?
You got it! Use it!