Give Me The Ball!

 

True Christians do not like to be on the defense.  We understand that God has given us the tools and weapons we need to take the land He has given to us, all we need to do is to stand up and appropriate that which is guaranteed to us. Like playing on a team, we can be good team members, but there comes a time when we say “Hey!  Give me the ball! Let me try”

 

When God spoke to Moses, He asked him “What is in your hand?”  To Moses, it was just an old rod.  Perhaps he had used it to pull in a straying sheep, or waved it at a predator or leaned on it in the cool of the day. God used that which was ordinary to symbolize His power. It was this rod that was symbolic of the power of God, this rod that was used to smite the rock and the waters flowed, this rod that was lifted up in prayer when the plagues came in Egypt , this rod that was lifted when the Red sea was parted. I don’t know about you, but if I was an Israelite back then, maybe I would have said “Hey, let me try that thing!  I want to do something for God, let me lift it up, let me part the next sea or river, Give it to me!“

 

The tools of faith, the Holy Ghost baptism, the Word of God, and divine joy are available to us, greater than Moses’ rod, and more powerful!

If we sit back and wait for the devil to hit us, he will.  We should be the one going on the offense and driving him out.  When Jesus came, He cast the devil out of people, drove his agents from the temple, and then told him to get out of His face! (Get thee BEHIND me satan!)

 

If we ask for the ball, when God gives it to us, we must do something with it!