What do you have in your hand? Forty more years ago, God was of great importance. Come to find him. He was then a very serious man who was aware of his value. Was it not considered to be the case? Like the son of Pharaoh's daughter? Hadn't he? Elevation in all the wisdom of the Egyptians? If someone were to do God's business, he was. But we know his lamentable failure and the history of his escape from the d'Eacute. And the agrave, he will learn the hard story of humiliation. He will keep the herds of another, the last of them, away from the caravan road. And this agricultural learning; Will last 40 years. And 40 years later, God comes to find Moiuml. But it's no longer the great mercy of the past, it's now the shepherd, cut off, so humiliating. that he no longer believes in doing no one's business, to the point that he will discuss with God and say: No Lord, choose no one but me. And then, you know, Lord, I don't speak well. I have the language I use and I'm talking about some words. But look at my brother Aaron, he has a bag from Paris. So if you want to choose someone, choose him, but not me, I don't speak well enough for you. Perhaps Aaron spoke better than Moiuml, but in his work God does not want beautiful speakers. More than men who speak well, he wants men who speak just. So God has been able; He looks at Moiuml, and he also puts it on you. Maybe there's something about you, like a surprise break, because, as a young man, you thought you could remake the world. All right. Life is so marked by mistakes, such a great deal, that people sometimes think they are no longer dealing with anyone. God is looking at you. Listen to what he says: I, all of you who are tired and tired Not you who have made your life a success, but who have become fat and fat, and who have become fat. (Matthew 11:28) is sometimes more tired; This is not the case. C' is à Peter, a small fellow, whom I said, "I will make you a father of men." C' is à The claimant, a collaborator in the care of the occupant, whom he addressed; this laconic call: And that's what it's all about. The shepherd whom he addressed; this à call serve him. 3 x 40 = 120: The life of Moses can be divided into three parts of the same length. He was 120 years old, which, divided by three, gives 3 x 40 years. During the first 40 years of his life, he learned how to work. To be someone. During the next 40 years, he learned how to work. There was nothing, and during the last 40 years God was pleased. Show the world what he could do with a man who wasn't there anymore! God said to him: What have you got in your hand? In his hand he had a shepherd's staff, in fact. a bottle. Nothing other than a book that was the symbol of his profession, his activity; in the Deacute, of its history on the herd. His life was taken up by the book he held. And God asked him; What do you have in your hand? A Bible, just a Bible, but God wants to use it. But before employing, God will make him a terrible problem. He said to him: Put your money on the floor. Expects all except à what will follow: He sees the becirc;ton twist and become a snake. His eyes are dreadful. The snake is so terrible in appearance, that it runs away in front of it. Moï Yet a man of war knew how to kill snakes; he had it. many others in his life. But a snake like that, he had never seen. What a terrible thing! Ah! He had learned some things in his life, but he was far from knowing that he was leaning on this baccidton during the heat of the day, the companion he was gliding under his pillow at night. That little boy was hiding a snake. I ask: Did your life happen to you? the Holy Spirit, who, says the Bible, convinces of fairness, justice and judgment? Did you see clearly in your life? Do you know what it is worth? What is the value of these efforts on which you rely, these good works that you try to accomplish, on which you may rely to go to heaven? The Bible teaches that the most beautiful of our works is in the eyes of the Lord as a unclean cloth. In other words, what's best for us Our eyes hide a snake. This great man whom he was Paul had lost his illusions, and he said: I know that in my life there is nothing good about it. How do you want this quot; can save us, and please à God? Do you want God to do for you what he did for Moses? The Bible says, in 2 Cor. 5: 21 speaking of I read: The person who did not know the problem, he made it become a reality. for us, that we may become in him righteousness of God. I transpose and paraphrase this text from the perspective of the New Testament, from the perspective of the cross and read that: As was the case in the past. the serpent in the place where he was not a snake, he was a snake. made serpent à our place so that anyone who believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. This means that this venom and evilness that are within us have taken place. à its account, and that it carries it; à judgment the cross. A great man once said: I don't know what's going on in a robber's heart, but I know what's going on in a man's heart, and it's horrible! Why? Because snake venom is hidden; in each of us. But when someone comes I am Christ in repentance and crying to him as in his only possible Saviour, God intervenes. The Holy Spirit is taking action in this man's life and is acting as a change as the transformed serpent; In a shepherd's seat. This is what the Bible calls New Birth. The man so transformed; Then comes into God's plan and becomes an instrument again in his hand. This is what verse 20 of chapter 4 says: "Moyal took in his hand the Bible of God." It was a book that now no longer belonged to him. He had become the priest of God and yet God entrusted him.What did you have in your hand? Just a little bit, yes, but now it belongs to us. God, as with conversion, our life no longer belongs to us. We're alone. We become servants and instruments in the hands of God, not by coercion, but by filial love. At least it is this authentic relationship with a loving person we are called to live. And that's his bit that we can use to do nice things. The end of illusions. But here, we are all, you and I, people, illusions. Then God will make à Put your hand in your breast. He doesn't suspect anything, he puts his hand on his chest. the place of the heart, it removes and hellip; As a result, his hand is covered with gravity. And we know what the right person was. This was not the case, but the image of the disease incurable. God alone could make it easier, as only God can make it happen. This is not only its business, its business; The latter is now his home. It is the source that is corrupt, it is his heart that is corrupt, and it is no less so! What a hope! But at the same time, what a great deal of fun! When God takes so much pain Show us what's wrong with our lives is that he's also going to take the trouble of getting things straight. God showed him; what he was doing was showing him how he was doing. present what is in his heart. And God purifies his hand; He forgives him, he changes him, he does it again. I'm asking you a question, because I have to ask you before I go further: Did you make this experience of the new birth? I'm not asking you if you have any kind of church. This has never been the case. No one in heaven. Let it be clear: Are you not aware again? Are you safe? If you die tonight, would you like to go to God's paradise? Because there is no other way of being saved. to convert. Tell me, is the Holy Spirit passing away? in your life and did he sweep; the snake and the egrave found there? You can have the best intentions in the world, you can have à dispositions serve it, you can have natural gifts, you can have university degrees, all this is very good, but if this is only for you and your precaution; doing good by your own quality, God would still see only a snake. And this snake has to die, it has to bite the dust, and there is only one place in the world where there is no one. the snake that we all bear in us bites the dust, it is gravia; the cross of Christ. This is what the first Bible prophecy is accomplished: There's a problem. the snake's skin. This means that a man who believes himself to be good without God is a snake who does not know and who always does harm. (Executive of bonnet; : Martin Luther King; L'rsquoabbéacute; Peter; One step further. If you pass well through the agrove, the authentic conversion, then you know that you belong to it. God comes or returns you as it has come He says: What have you got in your hand? In the hand of Moses there was the gift of God. It's the whole thing. the hour was still a snake, will rise on Egypt and the ten wounds will fall. This boat, which was a snake, will rise on the Red Sea, which will split in two to deliver passage through. a whole people at large. This boat will hit the rock of Oreb, from the Ugrave. Water will flow to quench the thirst of an entire nation. What do you have in your hand? Just a little bit. Yes, but when given; à God, he does miracles, he upsets empires, and he keeps his arms in check. God in another form asked; à What have you got in your hand? David, that's four stones too much. Will you give me your sling and your stone? David gave away; à God what he had in his hand. And he's all right. à the assault of the Goliath General, who had been serving the 39th and 40th days as a member of the Treaty. And Israel won; that day; One of the greatest victories in its history. Because a young man, a small country guy, had given birth; à God what he had in his hand. Philippe, look at this crowd of 5,000 men, not counting women and children. Give them à eat. Philip is very embarrassed, I say to myself, counting the crowd, mentally calculating and saying: Lord, even though a work year would not be enough to buy bread for this crowd. But there was the tree; a small boy, whose mother had given him the opportunity; A picnic made of 5 rolls and 2 fish. He came from the Lord with the little that he had what you had in your hand, my friend, 5 loaves and 2 fishes. And he gave them to the Lord. And the miracle is done, a huge crowd has been found. because a young boy had been given à I found what he had in his hand. What do you have in your hand? My Lord in my hand I have a pen of 39 o'clock with which I make my fraudulent accounts. And it's all right. What do you have in your hand? Lord, I have only one pen left. And the fact is, His pen to the Lord. With this pen, he wrote Matthew's Vanguard, for Matthew and Luke are one and the same person. And when today, 2,000 years of distance, we read Matthew's Vanguard, we read the Vanguard that has taken place. The writing of the pen of a certain Lévi, which gave; to the Lord what he had in his hand. And you poor woman who approaches the trunk of the temple, what have you got in your hand? My Lord in my hand I have two small pieces, everything I have left to live, and I would like to put them in the trunk of the temple. And that's what she did. And today, when we read this book, we still breathe a little bit of the scent of this woman's heart, who also grows us. the generality. What about today? We fly over the egraves and we arrive in the ougrave n°, again The Lord has come to ask me for his gift. I too: What do you have in your hand? In 2011 I was on the job and I was being asked as Yves did for me to come this morning to break your ears. I was in a state of great internal weakness. I have nothing in my hands, I have no work at all. I don't have great faith. to move the mountains, not much courage to serve you, little love even seems to me, little strength. Look for someone more qualified. and more dedicated; to be used in agriculture Ambeacuteu, agrove; Saint Genis-Laval or in my church of La Rue Louis. Find the other one who prays better, who is more faithful, who has more faith than I to serve you. Well, dear brothers and sisters, not proud to talk about me like this, not more brilliant than anyone here, I tell you, however, that God has no right to be honest; the little I had in my heart and in my hand. It's like you're out there. He said: Go, don't be afraid and do what I command you and I will do a good work for my children in the Ambeacute church, my children on Rue Louis or St-Genis Laval, because I am taking care of my church. I will use, if you agree, to give what I want to give. All my dear children of the St. Genis Church and its guests. Very, again this morning from elsewhere, I've had a good time. believe, in the tenderness and strength of God who does great things with our little ones, if we give Him with good heart, trembling me, what we have in our hands. And I say with all my heart Thank you, Lord, you do wonders. Yes, dear friends, you all have great value to God, even if today you may be persuaded that you are He does not exist. Maybe you believe it from a distance but it doesn't concern you for your daily life. Even if you live with the thought of good-byes It is only a matter of religion or even human manipulation, even if for you God does not have his place in your life, that he has no place in the manner in which you want to conduct your life freely, even if you are involved. Your eyes are big enough, smart enough and able to make your life and decisions. Yes, if for you God doesn't matter to you, you have two choices: Either you're right, or you're wrong. And that means this, either God is or he does not exist. And for that, many men in history have questioned each other. through the siegraves. Nietzsche said: God is dead! Today what are we really sure about? Nietzsche is dead! And I'm dying crazy!... but God? And the philosopher Pascal reasoned; such as: Where God exists and then the life after death, the life after death, the possibility; a new and happy life, or on the contrary of eternal suffering away from happiness, exist or God does not exist and once dead everything is finished for man. Pascal then made his famous bet. I will bet that God exists; And if I'm wrong, it's no big deal because once I die, there's nothing left, I wouldn't have any conscience and therefore no pain. I would not have lost anything. On the other hand, if I bet that God doesn't exist and I'm wrong, then I'll be lost for the future, missing the only chance of knowing the real life and suffering forever. Agrave; I really would have lost everything and it will be to suffer forever. What a terrible mistake! What bet do you make? It's very serious, it can cause your happiness or suffering forever. Pause - Believe or not, what do you have in your hand? Perhaps the question leaves you a little confused? I don't have much, either, if I have something. My friends you have little, but what's certain is that little becomes much when God is there. Let me know what happened to him. How much do you have in your hand? Just a little bit? Yes, but when given; à God! Good intentions. Many are filled with good intentions; For months, perhaps the year after, they propose to serve God, to do great things for him. It is proposed to be part of the local church, to go to worship or to go to work. Mass; It's a spectator, but it doesn't go any further. We propose to do this... and we never go beyond the stage of intentions. We're always out there, on the threshold, never really inside. There are still consumers of the church or assembly. In everyday life, many people do the same. They sometimes find that someone suffers, needs help, sometimes someone close to them, and they feel that one day they would have to do something to help them. But of intent there is nothing left over the weeks, months and years. Our company and dying of this laxity, of this immobility. We are often full of good intentions, but we never go past this stage. One action is better than 10,000 good intentions. Our good intentions will never reverse evil and suffering. It seems to me that hell would be of good intentions. Maybe you're afraid to go further with God, because you don't feel good. height. But that doesn't matter if you're little ones, God is great. No matter if you are weak, God is strong. Some people say, "I'm a drunk. But God is 1. And if you put 1 in front of 0, ça made 10! I'm a triple 0 and the agrove; ça made 1,000! God does not ask us to rely on our weak means, he asks us to deliver our weak means to Him and to rely on Him. This is the agrove; All the way. But we must deliver them to Him, we must tell Him in a spirit of decision: Yes, Lord quot. And let your Yes be Yes! How much would things change in your church and elsewhere, if everyone wanted to say yes, Lord, you can count on me today, that little bit of life I have, well! I give it to you. Remember that Little becomes much when God finds himself there. It may be surprising if I tell you this this morning. After all you have the gravia. For the most part, your faith in God is in you, since you are Christians. Besides, I know you're not doing nothing! But God resteth me with the question: Do I know how to give the little I did? God for him to act in the world? Or do I just beg for the help I need, the love I miss, the pride for my problems, the comfort for my suffering? If we don't watch out, we don't live anything else. We are starting turn our eyes to us alone forgetting that God is not the agrovest; that to distribute benefits to us according to our needs or aspirations, forgetting that just the agrave; outside, people are lost, forgetting that we must not wait to devote ourselves a little bit more. those who die of hunger, e.g., or suffer, forgetting that society; who scares us and sometimes a little horror, it is that of the humans for whom I have died without condemning them. And He commands us to go to them, not for our perfection, but for Him the savior, the only path, the spirit that changes those tortuous hearts that make us afraid of the agrivet; outside But you know all this by heart. Undoubted of the value of what we have, we end up doing nothing, and we end up doubting God. It is a devil's age. To hang us à our business, instead of offering God, we end up as an inert and egrave stone, still in the midst of millions of others forming an immense body. And yet, the little strength we have, especially, and we understand it well as we age, the little love we have, the little sense we have, our lack of authenticity, our poverty. and spirit; In short, the poor person who represents himself when we have what is left of know-how and capacity, like the shepherd's bean, this little is very serious for us, but even more so for God if we really offer him.