Exodus 3:6 “ Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.”
God always speaks to us in the context of what He as done in the lives of those who have gone on before us. When God encountered Moses, He did not give Moses an assignment independent of what He had done through those who had preceded him. God had made promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob hundreds of years earlier, and God was now going to involve Moses in His ongoing activity to fulfill the covenant He had made with Moses’ forefathers.
The God who led Moses, who worked through Elijah, the God who directed Paul, the God who guided each man and woman of God through the centuries, is the same God that approaches us to be involved in His work. Do you see the significance of that? We are a vital part of something much bigger than just ourselves! We tend to only think of the present. We want immediate results and we do not seem to have a sense of eternity. Sometimes we act like God has not been working at all where we are before He approached us. We expect that anything God does through us will be completed while we can see the results. We get impatient if God intends to complete what He began in us through another person or even another generation.
Moses came to understand that his involvement in God’s work was in the context of hundreds of years of God’s activity. When Moses came face to face with the same God that guided his forefathers, he was humbled greatly! Do you see that your life is a part of God’s eternal purposes?