Exodus 3:12
“But I will be with you, and this shall be
the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of
Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
God's sign to Moses remains in an unclaimed
future. Your feet will again stand on this mountain. But by that time, they
will have walked back to Egypt, gathered My people and walked out of Egypt.
These same naked feet you look down at today will then have sandals caked with the dust of Egypt and the bottom of the sea on them the next time you stand here.
This is your sign: you will be here again, but everything by then will be different... and I will remain the same!
This is your sign: you will be here again, but everything by then will be different... and I will remain the same!
So often when we ask for a sign, we want it in the beginning or middle stages of God's work in our lives. But how often it happens that we have no idea what God is doing until we look back over it all, and then it's so clear. God's sign is essentially that you get through it all, befuddling and vague and misty as it all might seem at the time, with hindsight that proves he was working it all along. The sign doesn't usually come in the middle in the spirit or form of a pep talk.
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