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Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian… Exodus 3:1

Some seasons feel like a spiritual standstill. No big revelations. No burning bushes. Just quiet, repetitive days – emails, chores, appointments, kids’ soccer games, sleep, repeat.

We don’t talk much about boredom in the Christian life. But it’s there. And for some of us, it’s not just a day or two. It might be a season. Or even a decade.

Moses knew something about that.

Before he became the leader of Israel, Moses spent forty years in Midian as a shepherd. That’s a long time tending sheep and navigating desert hills. The Bible gives us almost no details about those years. Why? Maybe because they felt forgettable, even to Moses.

But those four decades weren’t wasted. God was shaping him, teaching him humility. Training him to lead living things through the wilderness. When the burning bush finally came, it happened on an ordinary day during an ordinary task. The kind of day Moses had lived over and over again.

Then again, that’s how God uses boredom to make us more spiritually prepared.

Holy boredom isn’t laziness or apathy. It’s a simple willingness to keep showing up in the ordinary while trusting that God is still working. The quiet years aren’t spiritual timeouts. They’re slow building spaces where our character deepens and our hearts are made ready.

Don’t rush through the boring seasons. God might be doing His best work in you right now, even if life seems kinda stale and it doesn’t feel like much. And who knows? One of these days, everything you’ve quietly learned might turn into something only God Himself could’ve planned.