What's already in your hands?

Here’s something I’ve been sitting with this week.

I think a lot of us are quietly waiting. Waiting to be more sorted, more qualified, more spiritually put-together before we feel like God can really use us. We carry a low-level assumption that he’s saving the good work for someone better.

But I keep coming back to a question God asks in Exodus 4. Moses is standing barefoot at a burning bush, convinced he is entirely the wrong person for the job. And God doesn’t ask him what he wishes he had. He doesn’t tell him to go and get something better. He simply asks: “What is that in your hand?”

A shepherd’s staff. The most ordinary thing imaginable. The tool of his everyday trade.

And that’s where God begins.

It’s the same with Peter. Jesus doesn’t ask him to put the nets down and forget everything he knows. He says, let them down. He works through what’s already there - the patience of a fisherman, the strength of someone who keeps casting even after a long, fruitless night.

The miracle comes through Peter’s obedience as a fisherman. Not despite it.

This is today’s devotional, and it’s one I keep needing to hear myself. God rarely starts with a blank page. He starts with you - with what you already carry, what you already know, what you already do.

There’s a simple prayer at the end that I think might stay with you.

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I’d love to hear what’s already in your hands.

With you, Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/what-if-ordinary-is-exactly-enough?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true