Out of the Depths

God heard. God remembered. God looked. (Exodus 2:24-25 KJV)

Ex. 2:23-25; Deut. 7:9; I Kings 8:56; Ps. 55:1-2, 142:1-3, 130; Rom. 6:16-19; Heb. 10:23

What Is God Saying?

We see the people of Israel in this portion of Exodus laboring under slavery yet remembering the promises God gave to Abraham and his offspring. The people of Israel cherished their traditions. They guarded their memories. During the years under other Pharaohs after Joseph, they kept alive the memory of the destiny God planned for them and promised to them. The Egyptians regarded them with suspicion, and why not? They had grown from the seventy people who went to Egypt during the famine to a nation of three million. It served the best interests of the Egyptians to keep them in perpetual bondage.

But God was in control. God heard their cry and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked and knew their condition. (2:23-25) First, they cried for help, and then God, who was their "help in ages past and their hope for years to come," set in motion the process of deliverance in which He would be "their shelter from the stormy blast and their eternal home."

How Does This Apply To Us?

God is still in control. God still hears our prayers. God still remembers His own. God still looks upon those who suffer with compassion and redeeming love. God remembers that Jesus died in our place on the Cross to set us free from sin. God still sees us as we are and even more for what we may become. All our prayers should be in the confidence that God, who hears, remembers, and cares, can do what He has promised.

Pray With Me

“Out of the depths, I cry unto You, O Lord.” (Psalm 130) Out of the depths, out of total helplessness, I have cried, and You have heard.

In Your kindness, do not remember my sin and my pride. In Your patience, do not remember the times I turn away. Your suffering on the Cross redeemed me. In dying there, You have transformed the shadow of death into the light of life.

Through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Moving On In The Life of Prayer

When we pray, we pour out the needs of our hearts to One who hears. We talk to a living God who remembers, sees, and cares. God remembers His covenant and His promises. He remembers them and makes them good.