Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Your Secret Weapon - #8269

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Steve was one of the world’s great pool players. He was a winner on the outside. Inside, he knew something big was missing. It turned out it was Jesus. When he opened his life to the God who made Him, he realized that a lot of the junk that went with his life on the pool circuit didn’t go with following Jesus. He laid it all down. He went for years of Christian education. And as He told me, to his surprise, God then told him to pick up that pool cue again and use it to point people to Jesus…which he’s been doing big time. And folks who love the game he loves are getting introduced to the Savior he loves.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and when Steve told me his story, it sounded so much like the turning point day in the life of a Bible hero named Moses. He thought he was going to spend the rest of life tending his sheep, using the tool of his trade, the shepherd’s rod he carried everywhere, until the day God encountered him at a burning bush. Told him he wanted Moses to join him in rescuing his people from slavery in Egypt. Then this strange, transforming conversation: “The Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand? ’A staff,’ he replied. The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground” (Exodus 4:1-4 ). Well, just like Steve, he had a stick in his hand that sort of defined him. And God told him to throw it down. He didn’t know what God would do with it, but he surrendered it.

Ultimately God asked him to pick it up again and He did amazing things with it. Moses’ rod became the rod of God that He used to divide the Red Sea and melt the heart of Pharaoh. It’s your turn now. God’s asking you, “What’s that in your hand?” Is He asking you to throw it down so He can do things with it that you could never do?

This radio program references: Exodus 4:1-4