📖 And Moses answered, But behold, they will not believe me or listen to and obey my voice; for they will say, The Lord has not appeared to you.
And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.
And He said, Cast it on the ground. And he did so and it became a serpent [the symbol of royal and divine power worn on the crown of the Pharaohs]; and Moses fled from before it.
And the Lord said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail. And he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand,
[This you shall do, said the Lord] that the elders may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has indeed appeared to you.
—Exodus 4:1-5 AMPC
We must learn to trust God in secret before He uses us publicly. Moses had to learn how to trust God in private before he could represent Him publicly. Before Moses could declare the next plague that would hit Egypt, he had to demonstrate obedience when no one was around. He had to trust that his rod would turn into a snake and then back into a rod again. He had to trust that the leprosy would leave his hand once he placed his hand back into his pocket. Moses had to learn obedience when no one was looking so that he would do what God told him to do when the whole world was watching. We cannot despise the day of small beginnings. We must learn to trust God in the smaller things before we are able to move on to bigger things. Faith is walking with God. The longer we walk with God, the bigger our faith should become. We go from faith to faith, glory to glory.
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