And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”
God chose a shepherd's rod to confound Pharaoh's pride; what shame for Moses to carry the crook that guided his flocks against the royal scepter. Yet his obedience shines precisely in this willingness to abase himself and glorify God, for He hides His treasures in earthen vessels and uses weak things to overthrow the mighty.
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Moses persists in backward steps, and we cannot now call it humility but must own cowardice, slothfulness, and unbelief. He was a great mind but no orator, and thought himself unfit for great affairs; yet God often chooses those with fewest natural advantages, that His grace may shine the brighter. An unwilling mind will seize any sorry excuse rather than obey.
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Commenting on Exodus 4:10-17
And thou shall take this rod in thine hand,.... Which he then had in his hand, and was no other than his shepherd's staff: wherewith thou shall do signs: wondrous things, meaning the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt.