Ever feel that God has forgotten you during your suffering? That He’s not seeing the tears, nor hearing your desperate, quiet prayers, or even the deepest sighs of your heart?
The Hebrew people suffered for 400 years as the Egyptians treated them cruelly.
In Exodus 2:23 it says, The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
Verse 24 says, God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. Vs 25 says, so God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
God did not look aside at the suffering of His Hebrew people, though I’m sure many of them felt that way. And God does not forget about us or look aside when we are suffering. Just as He was concerned about the Israelites, He is concerned about us.
We are never forgotten! Hebrews 13:5, it says, For He, Himself has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. However, what we must remember is, God loves us, and is using this time of suffering to reveal more of who He is, to, well do a multitued of. This is not random suffering, and the suffering will end in God’s appointed time.
Our part?
No matter how bad it looks, or feels or how excruciatingly painful emotionally/physically it may be, we remain as steadfast in our faith as possible, we trust God even just the tiniest littlest bit of our heart that we can. We give thanks in everything, (1Thessalonians 5:18) and count it all joy, (James 1:2,3) when suffering comes even if just saying the words in obedience to God’s word, for to give thanks and to count it all joy is an attitude that God uses to change us in many amazing ways. God becomes bigger in us, more precious to us than our brief and painful sufferings.
It is worth it! Romans 8:18, For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Hang in there, you’ll see.
People laugh when I say, living on earth is not so great, but eventually WE GET TO DIE!! Most of them don’t have a clue, but Christ-followers do! Our troubles will end and we will go live with Him forever where there will be no more suffering, sorrow or tears but joy everlasting.
It’s a journey isn’t it? Some good, some not so good, but we have each other and most importantly, we have God! And let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds Hebrews 10:24 NASB
Girl on the Best Journey of her life!
Ordinary Me; Extraordinary God 