What Is in Your Hand
"Then the Lord said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' 'A staff,' he replied."
— Exodus 4:2
Moses had spent forty years as a desert shepherd after failing spectacularly in Egypt. He told God he was nobody, could not speak well, and would not be believed. God asked one question about what he already held. It was an ordinary stick, worn smooth over four decades he considered wasted. That stick went on to split a sea.