He's Waiting to Hear

Exodus 3:7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 

As we transition from "The God Who Sees" to "The God Who Hears," we again find overlap in God's call to Moses at the burning bush.  God told Moses that He had seen and heard (and knew) the sufferings of His people, and as a result, was "coming down" to do something about it. God had seen all along what was going on, but now, added to that, He had heard their cry. They were calling out to Him for help.  We often wonder of God sees or hears, but does it ever occur to us that He does see and is waiting to hear from us? There are times when God does look down and reach down and do something without being asked (that's called "grace"), but there are also many times He is waiting for us to cry out and be heard (that's "mercy"). So, let's not play around.  Let's call out to Him, knowing and believing He sees, and is waiting to hear from us. He knows exactly what to do.