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Has God Seen Our Misery? · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today of the story in the Bible where Moses meets God essentially in the burning bush.
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  After taking his shoes off because it's totally ground, Moses averts his face.
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  He looks away because he's afraid to look at God and the Lord begins to speak.
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  And he says, I have indeed seen the misery of my people.
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  Boy, that's loaded, isn't it? But we have a lot of misery now.
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  God's people are suffering in many ways all over the earth.
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  They're not the only ones suffering. Basically everyone's suffering.
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  There is suffering on the highway of holiness.
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  One kind of suffering or another.
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  Well, God has seen the misery of his people.
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  And he says, so I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out,
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  out of that land into a good and spacious land.
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  He describes how the land that he will send them into is a land of flowing with milk and honey.
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  And he names the people that currently live there at the end of chapter eight.
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  He says, and now the quiet Israelites in chapter, I'm sorry, the end of verse eight.
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  And now in verse nine, it says, and now the quiet Israelites has reached me
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  and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
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  So now go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
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  Does this sound like a God plan?
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  Does this sound like a plan that God has worked multiple times in the history of his people?
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  It is indeed.
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  And he sent Jesus to die on the cross, to win us out of an oppressive world.
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  And though we are still here serving him as his ambassadors in Christ,
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  we know he will come again to save us from the oppression that we are facing.
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  He'll turn our fortunes again.
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  We're looking forward to his coming.