Most of us are employees. We work for someone else, or for a company.
If that is the case, how long have we been working with that company?
Nowadays, given the many opportunities and the changing landscape of the economy, to be with a company for 10 years would be considered a long service.
If 10 years seems like a long time, then how about 40 years?
And what if those 40 years were a difficult time with a hard-headed people who complained at everything?
Moses answered the call from God to go back to Egypt to deliver God's people from slavery and to lead them into freedom.
If Moses had known that it was going to be 40 long years of leading the people in the desert, he would have certainly considered carefully.
Nonetheless, in the end he was rewarded, not by stepping foot on the Promised Land, but with eternal rest with the Lord after a lifetime of hardships.
That is also what we long for - eternal rest with the Lord - at the end of the labours of life.
Let us remember that our sufferings on earth cannot be compared to the glory of above.
What is temporary cannot be compared at all with what is in eternity.