The Trouble of My People
Exodus 3:7-8 Then the LORD said, “I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt, and I have heard their cries when the Egyptians hurt them. I know about their pain. Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land and lead them to a good land where they can be free from these troubles. It is a land filled with many good things.
Sometimes as you look around, the world can be a very bleak place. Nearly one billion people globally have a mental disorder. Over 800 million don’t have enough to eat. Poverty is very much on the rise as the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider.
Those are bleak statistics indeed. But they’re not just statistics. They’re people – individuals just like you and me – with the same needs, the same hopes and dreams that we have.
And if we’re going to make this truly personal, let’s be honest, you and I have both been through our own times of suffering. Perhaps you’re suffering right now.
What do we do with that? Why does God allow it? I mean, look at what’s happened over the last year in Israel and Gaza. If Israel truly are God’s chosen people, why does He let it go on? And what about the innocents who’ve suffered so terribly on the other side of that mess too?
I’m not about to trot out some glib answer to such perplexing questions, but at a time when the nation of Israel was suffering in slavery … well, here it is …
Exodus 3:7-8 … the LORD said, “I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt, and I have heard their cries when the Egyptians hurt them. I know about their pain. Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land and lead them to a good land where they can be free from these troubles. It is a land filled with many good things.
Friend, God sees your suffering and He will deliver you from it just at the right time.
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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