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네가 가진 것이 무엇인가? What Is in Your Hand?
네가 가진 것이 무엇인가? What Is in Your Hand?
성경에 나오는 인물 중에 모세처럼 문무를 갖춘 자도 드물다. 그는 레위인 가정에 태어나 애굽 정책에 따라 강에 버림을 받았지만 왕의 공주에게 발견되고 건짐 받아 그의 아들로 입양되어 왕궁에서 자라며 앞으로 왕이 될지도 모르는 미래를 향하여 전반적인 교육을 받았다. 문학만 아니라 무술 주술까지 필요한 학문과 재주를 모두 개발하였을 것이다. 그러나 그는 여전히 히브리인라는 딱지가 있었고 살인자가 되어 도망하여 40년간 양지기가 되고 가정을 이루었다. 그는 양을 치며 안정된 삶을 살고 있는 동안 자기 민족 히브리인은 더 이상 감당하기 어려운 노예의 고통으로 부르짖는다. 하나님이 그들을 구원하기로 작정하고 양을 치는 모세를 찾아 그 일을 맡기기로 하시다. 가정을 이루고 안정되게 살고 있는 모세의 나이 80인데 안장된 삶을 그만두고 새로운 모험을 시작하는 것은 어려운 일이다. 모세는 자기에게 사명을 맡기는 분이 누군인지 확인하고자 이름을 묻는다. 그는 스스로 있는 자 여호와라고 한다. 참으로 상상하기 어려운 이름이다. 스스로 계시만 일을 만들고 있게 하며 온 세상 만물의 근본이 되는 자라라는 이름은 애굽의 많은 신과는 확실히 다르다. 모세는 사양하지만 하나님은 물러서지 않으신다.
네 손에 있는 것이 무엇이냐? 지판이입니다. 그것을 던지니 뱀이 되고 꼬리를 잡으니 지팡이가 된다. 말을 잘 못하는 자라고 한다. 누가 말 잘하고 못하는 자, 눈이 밝은 자 맹인을 만들었나? 하나님은 쓰시고자 하면 어느 사람을 있는 그대로 그가 가진 것을 사용하여 일을 하시는 여호와라는 것이다. 놀라운 일은 여호와 하나님이 직접 스스로 일을 하지 않고 사람을 사용하여 일을 하시는 것이다. 하나님이 쓰시겠다고 작정하시면 그가 가진 것이 무엇이든지 그의 인물이 어떠하든지 주의 부르심에 응하기만 하면 된다는 것이다.
예수께서 일을 하실 때 수도 예루살렘에서 자랑스런 학문과 지위를 가진 사람을 찾지 않고 소외되고 버려진 땅이라 할 수 있는 갈릴리 바닷가에서 고기 잡이에 실패한 사람들을 불러 나를 따라오라고 하신다. 그들은 배와 그물 부모를 뒤로 하고 주를 따랐다. 결정과 순종이 중요하다. 주께서는 이들을 통하여 하실 일을 함께 하셨다.
하나님은 홀로 일하지 않고 일할 사람을 필요하여 사람을 찾으시는데 그에게 발견되어 선택 받는 것이고 그의 부르심을 받을 때 응하여 그의 사명을 맡는 것이다. 스스로 일하는 것이 아니고 부르신 주께서 함께 하여 자기 일을 하게 하시니 겸손하게 주의 손에 들려진 도구가 되는 것이다. 하나님은 모세의 손에 무엇이 있는지 물으시고 지팡이로 많은 일을 하셨지만 누구나 주의 손에 잡힌 바 되면 우리의 가진 것이 무어이든지 우리의 인물과 형편이 어떠하든지 상관 없이 주께서 일을 하신다는 사실이다. 오늘 셀폰 안에 많은 자료와 기능이 들어있지만 누구의 손에 있는가에 따라 활용되는 것은 달라진다. 내가 가진 재능과 형편이 어떠하든지 내가 주의 손에 있으면 주께서 못하실 일이 무엇인가? 나는 많은 제한이 있는 시골 출신으로 특별한 재능이 없지만 나를 찾아 부르시는 주의 손에 나를 맡김으로 지금까지 주께서 나를 사용하여 일하신 것을 감사한다. 모세가 가진 지팡이를 통하여 많은 일을 하고 그 백성을 해방시키셨다면 우리가 여호와 하나님 손에 잡힌 지팡이가 된다면 얼마나 더 큰 많은 일을 하나님께서 하지 않으시겠나?
What Is in Your Hand?
Among the people we encounter in the Bible, there are few who were as well equipped in both knowledge and ability as Moses.
He was born into a Levite family and, because of Pharaoh’s policy, was placed in the river. But he was discovered and rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter and adopted as her son. He grew up in the royal palace, receiving a broad education that might have prepared him even for a future as a king. He would have been trained not only in literature and learning, but also in the skills and disciplines necessary for life in the royal court, perhaps even in military arts and the practices of the Egyptians. Yet he still carried the identity of a Hebrew. Eventually, he became a murderer and fled from Egypt. For forty years he lived as a shepherd and established a family.
While Moses was living a peaceful and stable life tending sheep, his fellow Hebrews were crying out under the unbearable suffering of slavery. God determined to deliver them and came to Moses, who was tending his sheep, and entrusted this great task to him.
Moses was eighty years old. After building a family and settling into a stable life, it was not easy for him to leave that life behind and begin a completely new adventure.
Moses wanted to know who was sending him, so he asked God His name. God answered, “I AM WHO I AM,” and revealed Himself as the LORD. What an extraordinary name! The One who exists by Himself, who brings all things into being, and who is the source of everything in the universe is certainly different from the many gods of Egypt. Moses tried to decline the calling, but God did not retreat.
Then God asked him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” Moses answered.
God told him to throw it on the ground. When he did, it became a snake. When Moses grabbed it by the tail, it became a staff again.
Moses also said that he was not a good speaker. But God asked, in effect, “Who makes a person able to speak or unable to speak? Who gives sight or makes a person blind?” The LORD was showing Moses that when He chooses to use someone, He can use that person just as he is and use whatever he already possesses.
What is truly remarkable is that the LORD God does not choose to accomplish His work entirely by Himself. He chooses to work through people. When God determines to use someone, it does not matter what that person has, what kind of person he is, or what limitations he may have. What matters is whether he responds to the Lord’s call.
When Jesus began His ministry, He did not go to Jerusalem to find people with impressive education, social status, and positions of honor. Instead, He went to the Sea of Galilee, a region that could be regarded as remote and overlooked, and called fishermen who had experienced failure in their work: “Follow me.”
They left their boats, their nets, and even their parents behind and followed Him. Their decision and obedience were important. The Lord then worked with them and accomplished His purposes through them.
God does not work alone. He looks for people through whom He can work. To be found and chosen by Him, to hear His calling, and to respond to that calling is to receive the mission He entrusts to us.
We do not accomplish the work by ourselves. The Lord who calls us is with us and enables us to do His work. Therefore, we become humble instruments held in the hands of the Lord.
God asked Moses what he had in his hand. He used Moses’ staff to accomplish many things and ultimately to lead His people out of slavery. The lesson is that whatever we possess—whatever our abilities, circumstances, or limitations may be—when we are held in the Lord’s hands, He can use us and accomplish His work through us.
A cellphone today contains an enormous amount of information and many useful functions. Yet how much of its potential is actually used depends greatly on whose hands it is in.
Likewise, no matter what talents I have or what my circumstances may be, if I am in the Lord’s hands, what is there that the Lord cannot do through me?
I came from a rural background with many limitations and without any particular special talents. Yet I am grateful that, by placing myself in the hands of the Lord who found me and called me, He has used me and accomplished His work through me to this day.
If God could accomplish so much through the staff that Moses held in his hand and use him to lead His people to freedom, how much more might God accomplish if we become like that staff—an instrument held firmly in the hands of the LORD?
The question is not, “What do I have?” but rather, “Whose hands am I in?”
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