The last blog talked about the importance of watching, which sometimes means waiting even when God has put something on our heart.

Sometimes God works this way; He places a desire on our hearts before the opportunity arises. Sometimes, the opportunity may takes years to arise, like Joseph who waited 17 years and over half of the book of Genesis to see the dream God gave him come to fruition.

Has God put something on your heart?
Stirred you from within?

Has God given you a burden to pray for something, a people group, a place?

Has God impressed something on your heart, or broken your heart for something?

Has God done any one of those things, but you simply don’t know what to make of it, what to do about it, or when to move?

As people, desperate to impress, impatient at waiting and wanting things immediately, too often we take things into our own hands, before allowing God to shape and form us through our current experiences, and those of the waiting, before He opens the door.

None is more obvious than in the life of Moses. Moses, who was brought up as a prince in the Egyptian palace, though an Israelite by birth and a cunning plan for his own mum to bring him up on behalf of the Egyptian princess, knew that God had placed him in the palace to save those of his own people.

So Moses, a young man full of passion decides his time has come.

“One day when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. he looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand” Exodus 2 v 11 – 12.

Moses had a burden for his people and he desired to see them freed from the heavy burden of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Moses wanted justice and his desire was to rescue his people. After all, he was saved, a miracle baby, surely for a purpose as noble as this. Moses was in the right geographic location.

Moses had the passion, but not the power.

Moses had the attitude but not the anointing…

…at that point.

Moses has to flee and spends 40 years in the wilderness shepherding sheep before God finally opens the door (by which point, Moses questions his ability to do it!)

In Verses 23 – 25, God hears Israel’s groaning and raises Moses up in the wilderness to lead and save God’s people from Egypt. It was as if God had to deal with Moses’ self-belief and desire first so that Moses wouldn’t portray himself as the hero. When this happens, God raises Moses up in God’s strength, not Moses’ own strength.

If God has placed a burden on your heart, hang on, waiting for Him, watch for His leading.