Does God care about your perspective?

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Does God care about your perspective? For example, Moses, when God is talking to him through the burning bush, says, "I'm going to use you to lead my people out of captivity from Egypt." Not only is Moses' life off track because he murdered somebody, but he's also 80, which back then was typically the oldest that people would live to. So, he's probably thinking, "I'm going to die any day." Yet, while knowing all that, God still chooses to use Moses to do great things for God as long as he'll still choose to obey right now. But, Moses is honest with his situation. He says to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" God tells him, "I will be with you." And God tells him he'll give him a sign in the future. After Moses goes and gets all the people, he'll come back and worship in that same spot. But, Moses' mind isn't on the future. He's concerned about the right now. "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' And they ask me, 'What is his name?'" Almost like, "What's the passcode?" "Then what shall I tell them?" God says to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you're to say to the Israelites, 'I am has sent me to you.'" So, God is answering Moses' questions, but obviously it's still confusing from Moses' perspective. But then, God does something really interesting. And he already subtly did it once. He tells Moses the future, saying, "The elders of Israel will listen to you." He also tells him, "I know that the king of Egyptians will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels them. So, I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go." So, God's trying to offer Moses his perspective, but remember, this is Moses, he's 80, and this is the first time he's interacting with God. So, he's got to be thinking something like, "I hear you, but I don't really see how that's going to happen. Last time I tried to save one person, and I screwed it up." So, Moses verbally responds to God's telling of the future by saying, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you?'" So, then God gives him miracles to prove to others, but also to Moses, that God is with him. But then, God does something even more interesting than telling Moses the future. "The Lord said to Moses, 'If they do not believe you.'" Pause. If God already stated the future, knows what's going to happen, why is he saying, "If they do not believe you?" Shouldn't it say, "When they do not believe you? Why would God be saying if? I think it's because of something David said in the future, the man after God's own heart, the one that took down Goliath. When talking to God, he said, "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down. You're familiar with my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it completely." God knew what Moses was going to think and what he was going to say. So, wouldn't it make sense that he tailors his language to help Moses understand right now? Does God care about our perspective? He cared about Moses's. When Moses got honest about where he was really at, God met him there, but didn't leave him there. He spoke to Moses from the perspective of what he was going through right now to lead him to the place that God ultimately wanted him to be. So, whatever we're walking through, we can be real with God. He cares about our perspective, and when we bring it to him, he'll use it to guide us. Let us know how we can be praying for each other today, friends. God bless.