Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob could see that he was El Shaddai, God Almighty, but the people of Israel in their suffering could call upon him with an increased understanding that the Almighty Lord, who is, who was, and who is to come (Revelation 1:4), truly is never absent from us.
This means that we never need to be afraid if the Lord does not respond to our cries immediately. When we grow in our knowledge of the Lord, we see that his perspective is infinite and eternal. Although we measure our lives in terms of time, with a beginning and an end, and we think that we need justice before we die, the Lord knows that our deaths are not the end for us. He sees the big picture. A thousand years are like a day gone by. Whenever we cry to him, whenever we turn to him, he is God with us. When the Lord replies to Moses’ complaint (Exodus 6:1–8), he reveals that whenever we cry to him, we can find comfort in his Name, his faithfulness in the past, the sending of his Son, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and his promises for the future.
1 But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”