The God of the past is the God of today. 

All my life I have had a fascination with the story of other people. Especially how they have overcome against the odds. I have met incredible people of many cultures. I have also learnt so much from people I have never met and I have often wanted to travel back in time to ask them some questions.

Moses has spent 40 years in Midian looking after sheep. That may have seemed a long time to him, it does me. God was waiting all that time and then steps in with the assumption that Moses would consider having Him as his God, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, his family line had.

“Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.” Exodus‬ ‭3‬:‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

God is bigger than your own experience of him. That’s the message to Moses. Abraham knew the God of promise. Isaac as the God who provides. Jacob as the God who wrestles and doesn’t let go. Moses is about to need all three. The God of the fathers is the God of the moment, because he was never confined to the moment that came before.

Moses’ response was to his face. He was not going to treat this sacred moment as ordinary. 

Whatever God is doing in your life, a recognition of who has walked this path before us is crucial to understand that He will never ask us to do what others haven’t also been asked to do. The mission is a shared one across history. 

Before Moses can lead a nation out of slavery, he first has to cover his face before the God who was with his fathers and who was, all along, with him too.

The God who called him was not confined to the present even to the newest supernatural sign of the burning bush. He is the God of the fathers and the God of the moment.

Whatever is happening today know that He has already walked with those before you. He was with them and He is never far from you either.