God Knows

During that long period, the king of Egypt died [Moses had been in Midian for several years settling down]. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 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 2:23-25

God was concerned about His people. He heard their groaning, and now He would act. The Israelites had suffered under the hand of Pharoah for a considerable amount of time. They were crying out desperately for help.

They were being pushed beyond their limits in intense slavery under a wretched ruler. Now God wanted to free them.

Our own grief and tears are heard by God. He leans down to hear even the tiniest cry from our hearts. Even the cries we no nothing about deep inside, He knows. We think, so often, that He is silent, but He is listening to the prayers we pray.

God knows.

Even more than our physical struggles here on earth, God also and especially knows the quiet suffering of our souls and the poor choices with which we have enslaved ourselves. And sometimes He will use the happenstances of our lives and our choices to cause us to reach out to Him more than before.

God is always nearer than we think. He knows.

He cares.

God is concerned.

He hears our prayers and answers them according to His most perfect will.

Father, hear the cries of our hearts, deeper than our minds can perceive. Go beyond the cloudy, foggy thoughts and feelings, and get to the real issues within us. Holy Spirit, groan for us in inexpressible words and deliver us from ourselves and our plights. You know us more than we know ourselves. Thank you for caring for us all. In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.