God is giving Moses assurance here -- the people will hear, and they will listen, and they will seek an opportunity to worship. God is using Moses to remind the people of their history with God -- this isn't something new that God is doing with a new people, but God is building on a history of intervention, and just as God sustained the culture before, God will sustain them now.
This is what's helpful about reading church history. We read about things the church endured in previous generations, and we see how God brought the people through challenges, pushing them beyond obstacles into new stages of growth. It's the same church, generation after generation, and the same God, faithfully guiding the people into the future. It can be an uncertain future in our minds, but we can know with certainty that God will be with us and that God holds that future in God's hands.
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