God Hears Israel's Groaning
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. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Subject: God's Care
God knows!!! The last words of the above verse ought to be the most comforting to us in our lives. He knows our heartache and our pain. Note what the writer of Hebrews tells us:
Hebrews 4:15 (ESV Strong's)
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
God not only knows our weaknesses and our pain He can "sympathize" with them. Vine in his dictionary of Greek words tells us this about the word, "sympathize:"
(Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary) sumpatheo (συμπαθέω, 4834), “to suffer with another (sun, ‘with,’ pascho, ‘to suffer’), to be affected similarly” (Eng., “sympathy”), to have “compassion”
When God saw the pain and suffering of His people in slavery and bondage in Egypt, He sent them a savior: Moses. He did not want them to suffer. When God saw our slavery to sin and our bondage to evil, God sent us a Savior: Jesus. Christ came and was the representative for us toward God. He suffered as we suffered. When we pray to Christ about being rejected, He knows that rejection. When we pray to Christ about being lonely, He knows lonely. When we pray to Christ about a separation, He knows separation and even desertion. There is NOTHING we pray about to the Father that the Son has not experienced. God knows!!!!
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