Does God Intervene in Our Lives without Our Asking for it?

God certainly did with Moses.

Moses was the son of Amram and Yochebed of the tribe of Levi. He was born in Egypt during the period in which the Pharaoh had ordered that all newborn male Hebrew children be cast into the Nile. Rescued by the daughter of the Pharaoh, he was brought up in the splendor of the Egyptian court as her adopted son. Grown to manhood, aware of his Hebraic origin, and with deep compassion for his enslaved brethren, he became enraged while witnessing an Egyptian taskmaster brutally beating a Hebrew slave. Impulsively he killed the Egyptian. Fearing the Pharaoh’s wrath and punishment, he fled into the desert of Midian, becoming a shepherd for Jethro, a Midianite priest whose daughter Zipporah he later married. While tending the flocks on Mt. Horeb far in the wilderness, he beheld a bush burning that was not consumed.

Out of the burning bush, Yahweh ( God ) spoke, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey — the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

And Moses responded, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

And God said, “I will be with you.” Exodus 3:1–12

You see, Moses never asked to become leader of Israel. Moses never asked to help God to free the Hebrews from slavery. Moses never asked for the Ten Commandments. Moses never asked God to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, or become a Prophet, or become one of the most influential religious leaders in history.

It was God that approached Moses. Not the other way around.

When God intervenes in our lives, He gives us a choice: we call follow Him or we can choose our own way. If God intervenes in your life, I pray that you have the courage to trust God as Moses did.