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Exodus chapter 2, verses 23 through 25.

During those many days, the king of Egypt died,

and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.

Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God, 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 picture of God when his people are hurting. If I could just summarize this picture,

when God's people are hurting, God hears them, God sees them, and God knows them. And none of

this is passive, God just kind of sitting back listening or watching or knowing

what they're going through. What happens right after this is one of the greatest revelations

of who God is in all of the Bible in Exodus chapter 3 when God reveals himself to Moses as the

I am, the one who was and is and always will be,

the one with all authority in all the universe, the creator of all, the everlasting God,

who is not just watching what's happening in Egypt as God's people are in slavery, but he is working

and he's about to deliver them from slavery. And I just want to encourage you with this picture

of God today. Obviously, I don't know all that you're walking through, but that's the beauty. God does. God hears your

cries. God sees your hurts and God knows better than you even know yourself and the situation

you're walking through. God sees, he hears, he knows, and not just passively,

God works actively, is working actively right now, all things together, things that you know,

and multitudes of things you don't know. He's working them all

together for your good, for the good of his people. And not just your good, but for others good.

This is how the book of Genesis ended, how God was working even in Joseph's suffering, not just for Joseph's good, but for the

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