Also, quick side note. I'm at home for the Easter weekend and sometimes when I'm at home I can get so caught up in all of the things that I want to accomplish while I'm at home and I don't prioritize spending time reading my Bible. This morning as I was laying in bed, I decided to watch a YouTube video and the video that I chose was from absolute favourite YouTuber, and it was a video of her morning quiet time and devotional routine. In that video she talked about the importance of spending more time with the LORD and less time with her phone in the morning. It was in that very moment that I suddenly felt my brain wake up and I thought, 'Welp, there's some morning conviction if I've ever heard it'.
So I sat up, grabbed my Bible and journal, and dug in.
Exodus 33:12-14 says this:
Moses said to the LORD, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.' Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favour in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people." And He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."When I first read those verses, I thought 'Woah there! Who does Moses think he is to just say to God "Please now show me your ways"?' It wasn't until I asked myself this that I came to a bold realization - we are (or at least I know that I am) guilty of doing that. All. The. Time. Ooor at least more often than I'd like to admit.
I was chatting with a friend the other week about some situations in my life that I've been faithfully praying about for quite awhile, and I commented, "Why doesn't God just do something about it already?" Logically I know that God does many many many things that I don't see, and He does everything His way and in His timing, but out of my human frustration I flippantly made that remark.
My friend responded in the way that a solid Christian friend should - he pointed me back to the Bible. In Job, from chapters 38-42, the LORD responds to Job's frustrated and angry rant against Him, and asks him questions like "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?" (Job 38:4). The verse that my friend brought to my attention was Job 40:2 which is where the LORD says,
"Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God's critic, but do you have the answers?"When I was reading Exodus 33 this morning, I remembered Job as well as that conversation that I'd had with my friend the other week. Although God had a much shorter and more calm response to Moses in comparison to Job, the answers both share the same message:
God calls us simply to obey Him and to trust that He is present with us always.
As we are sinful humans, this is difficult for us because we get angry, and we have doubts and frustrations. We can definitely bring these questions and frustrations to God, but it's important that we don't blame Him or think that we are entitled to know what He has planned. We must always remember that the LORD is sovereign and His plans are well-timed and far better than our own.
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