“I have seen. I have heard. I have come.”

There are moments in life when we feel invisible. Our prayers can seem to bounce back from the ceiling. 

For four hundred years of slavery the Israelites knew that feeling.

And then God spoke. 

“The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus‬ ‭3‬:‭7‬-‭10‬ ‭

God had been paying attention. 

“I have seen the misery of my people… I have heard them crying out… and I have come down to rescue them.” 

This is not a God who observes from a distance and offers sympathy. This is a God who acts and who expects His people that He calls to act also. 

God’s compassion becomes a mission on earth which requires a person to be His hands and feet.

God sees the pain of people today just as clearly as he saw Egypt. He hears every cry that seems to go unanswered. He still works the same way, through the sent ones who say yes at a burning bush.

The question Exodus 3 leaves us with isn’t really about Moses. It’s about us. When God says “I have seen, I have heard, I have come” — are we willing to be the answer He sends? Where you go today and the people you will meet, you are His representative and He will use you. 

Will you align with what He has seen and what He has heard and will you be sent?