God’s Response to Our Cry (Exodus 2)
The enemy would like us to believe that when we are suffering that we are all alone in a vacumm. The enemies of God, especially Satan, work overtime to try and get God’s people to think that God does not care or see what is going on in the life of His people. For example,
“and they say, “The Lord does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
(Psalm 94:7)
On the other hand, how very comforting to know that when we are suffering that the Bible teaches a very different truth. Instead, Moses records in Exodus 2:23-25 that God considers our cries to our God greatly.
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
(Exodus 2:23-25)
Don’t miss the simple repetition of in verses 24 and 25. In the Hebew, the author uses only 15 words in these verses, but repeats the word “God four times. Each time the name “God” is used as the subject of a verse, putting emphasis ont he Lord Himself.
Today, our hope this come comes from the fact that God HEARS, God REMEMBERS, God SEES, and God KNOWS our suffering. What a great God we serve.
I too take HUGE comfort in the belief, rather the knowledge, that God SEES all hurts and pain. I have decided to make my pain of use to God, by my response being a brightly lit pathway directing people to His glory, and His ability to heal from the inside out. See Gen 50:20.
Dee
April 13, 2009