God Works

"God heard their groaning and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them." Exodus 2:24-25

I recently heard a preacher expound upon the above verses and was impacted by what he said he saw in them. He said that 4 things stood out to him about God and how He relates to us in our sorrow, pain, and suffering. He said those 4 things were; God Hears, God Remembers, God Sees, God Knows. He felt that these were key to our walking with Him through our own times of sorrow and pain. I want to share some thoughts about this.

GOD HEARS....We all wonder in our times of pain if God really hears our cries. Scripture promises that He does, but in times of suffering, our belief is put to the test. It can seem like the sky overhead is made of lead, and our prayers and calls for Him cannot pierce the thickness of our pain and need. In those times, we are forced to choose whether we will believe that He does hear us, that as His Word says, He is near to the brokenhearted. We choose to believe not what our emotions or circumstances say, but what He has promised.

GOD REMEMBERS....He has not forgotten His promises to us. If we are living in yielded obedience to Him, we can be sure that what He has promised, He will do. He has not forgotten His promises. He will act. Our part is to trust Him to do so at the right time and in the right way. He not only will not forget His promises, He will not forget us. Not ever.

GOD SEES.....I know in my own times of suffering, I have asked the Lord, "Father, don't you see what is happening?" The enemy will always try to get us to believe in these times that He has abandoned us, that He doesn't care and doesn't notice. It's a lie. Nothing is hidden from His sight. Nothing of our pain and need is hidden from His sight. His heart overflows with compassion and He is working in the midst of all of it for our good and His glory, but again, everything hinges on our trust, our obedience, and our waiting upon Him. He will move and He is never late, though we so often think He will be.

GOD KNOWS....Satan, the Prince of Darkness, will always try to get us to believe that the Father doesn't know or care about what is happening in our lives. Again, it's a lie. He is perfect Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. He knows in full where we are, what we're living in, and most of all, He knows exactly what we need and what He must do and will do in response to it all. Again, it all rests upon a foundation of our trust in Him.

In our wilderness times, we have to know that these things are so. He hears, He sees, He remembers, and He knows. Romans 8:28 says that God works all things for our good and for His glory. Hold to that promise. In all things, He works. He is working. Trust Him, follow Him, live in Him. He's working.

Blessings,

Pastor O