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Exodus chapter 2 verses 24 and 25, and God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant

with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel, and God knew.

What a beautiful passage of Scripture at the end of Exodus chapter 1 and 2 and the horrible picture

of oppression and slavery that we prayed through in Exodus chapter 1, even in light of those realities

in the world around us today, but to see these words as the people of God are crying out to God

for the Bible to say, God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant. Now,

obviously, that doesn't mean that God had forgotten his covenant with them. God doesn't forget

his omniscient. He's all knowing. It is not in his capacity. He does not forget anything,

but the picture here is God saying to his people, I know the promise I have made to you,

and I will be faithful to that promise to my covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

God saw the people of Israel, even that phrase, like in their suffering, God was not distant from them.

God was intimately aware of what they were walking through. So these are the last three words

in Exodus chapter 2 and God knew. So as you read these words, as you hear them, I want you to just let

them soak into your heart as part of the people of God and a world where groaning and crying out to

God as a reality. I think specifically about one family that I know who has been through such a

hard time family member after family member after family member who has been in the hospital with

COVID, and some who have died, and it's just been such a hard road. And so to read these words and

to realize God hears our groaning, and God is faithful to his promises, to preserve us, to

uphold us, to love us, to comfort us, to give us peace, to bring us through ultimately. God

sees us, and God knows what a picture. I just want you to feel that. I don't know what you're

walking through in your life right now. I'm guessing some many of you who are listening to this

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