Moses, Where Art Thou?

It is a hard thought to trust that God is working when we do not see Him working. I think of how bitter I would feel being an Israelite, working in Egypt day after day, trying to have faith that God is a God that fulfills His promises but "Ummmmmmm HI I am down here working and I think you forgot about me, God." I always have a tendency towards self-pitying, thinking maybe I am the one person that God missed when He was scanning the earth for the day. God, as the good God that He is, longs to teach us patience, long-suffering as the Bible so kindly names it. Ugh... what an awful word "long suffering". He desires to teach us while we are still in Egypt, doing what seems like the mundane. "BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE IN EGYPT ANYMORE!" Well, me not wanting it doesn't change it and if I give up on the hope of His eventual promises it doesn't change the outcome, it only changes my attitude in the meantime. And then there is God working on the details in the background of the story. I am so thankful that we have the benefit of looking back over the Bible and not being the humans originally living it out and having no one's stories to look back on for reference points. We see him working as he is calling Moses in a field through a burning bush while I (as said pretend Israelite) just want to pretend like I am slaving away in Egypt and He is doing nothing. God is working. God was working on behalf of His people- to bring them deliverance, to lead them to their Exodus, but it didn't come in a day. Sometimes God is unfolding bigger things for your life than you can imagine. The Exodus, His promises, might not seem within reach right now. Maybe they seem completely impossible but trust that God is greater than the possible. He might be "setting a bush on fire for you" in this moment, and you may never even know it until you are sitting around a campfire in the Promise Land one day and your Moses says, "It was the craziest thing the way God worked this all out..." So do your best to serve God in today and let tomorrow worry about itself. Tonight rest your head on your cozy pillow, take a deep breathe, and know He is still working in the unseen. He loves you. He has a plan just for you. Sometimes plans just take a little more coordination than a day. How ever would we learn long suffering if they didn't?