November 3, 2017

God Remembered

“So God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”  Ex. 2:24-25

Israel was in Egypt and under the harsh oppression of the Egyptian king.  Israel’s groan was its lament and cry for deliverance from the place of bondage and suffering and enslavement.  This passage declares the following truths:

1)  God heard their cries;

2)  God remembered His covenant with His people;

3)  God looked at His people; and,

4)  God acknowledged them.

In the next chapter of Exodus we read of Moses and the burning bush encounter.  Things were about the dramatically change for Israel.

We can find ourselves in a place of bondage and suffering.  It can be a place that is physical, emotional, or spiritual.  That place can bring us to the point of crying out to God, much like the Israelites.  Friends, know that God will hear our cries.  He will remember His covenant with His people.  He will look at us and acknowledge us.  He will meet us at our place of need and lift us up.  He will lift us up. 

An interesting point about what God did in this passage from Exodus was a hidden work.  The Israelites did not see this happening.  They learned later about a divine encounter God had with Moses -- and yet God’s remembering and acknowledging His people happened well before that.   As we are going through a season of trial or bondage, though we cannot see it, God is listening.  He is tuned in to hear the cries of His people, to remember the New Covenant and the cost of the Covenant with the life of His Son, Jesus.  He will look at us and acknowledge us.  Our burning bush encounter is a chapter ahead.