Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

I'm Wyn Collier, and I wrote today's piece titled, Using What God Provides.

The Brisbane City Hall in Australia was a dazzling 1920s project.

White stairs boasted marble from the same quarry

Michelangelo used for his David sculpture.

The tower reflected Venice's St. Mark's Basilica

and the Copper Dome was the largest in the southern hemisphere.

The builders intended for a massive angel of peace to adorn the pinnacle, but there was a problem.

No money left.

Plummer Fred Johnson came to the rescue.

He used a toilet cistern, an old lamp post, and bits of scrap metal to craft the

iconic orb that's crowned the tower for nearly 100 years. Much like Fred Johnson and his use of

what he had, we can join God's work with whatever we have, large or small. When God asked Moses to lead Israel

out of Egypt, Moses balked, what if they do not listen to me? God answered with a simple question,

what is that in your hand? Moses held a staff, a simple stick. God told him to throw the staff on the ground, and it became a snake.

Then he instructed Moses to pick up the snake, and it turned back into a staff. All Moses needed to do,

God explained, was carried the staff and trust him to do the rest.

Remarkably, he would use that stick in Moses' hand to rescue Israel from the Egyptians.

What we have might not seem like much to us, but with God, whatever we have will be enough.

He takes our ordinary resources and uses them for his work.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 4, verses 1 to 5.

Moses answered, what if they do not believe me or listen to me and say

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