Exodus 7:1-7
The Lord said to Moses, ‘See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgement. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.’ Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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The Israelites may have been unaware of what God was planning to do through Moses and Aaron. They knew of God's promised presence, but perhaps they were doubting whether God could live up to that promise or not. I would imagine they were so focused on the hard labor they had to perform, made harder since Moses' arrival, that they didn't have much time to dream.
But God had big plans for the Israelites, even if they weren't able to see that far. God had prepared a future for them, a land where they would live and thrive--God was dreaming bigger than the Israelites were dreaming!
As Christians, it's important for us to dream big--we know that God has promised to use the church, to use you and me, as a part of his plan to transform the entire world. God has big plans for us, and it's important that we continue to be faithful, continue to dream big, to imagine how God might use us, so that when the plans are made clear we are ready to live into God's future. Let's not get caught up in small debates and shrink God down to our size--rather, may our hearts and minds run wild as we seek to be the kind of people God has made us to be.
Blessings
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