Exodus 3:7-9 – God will come to our rescue

So right there in Horeb, Moses had a deep encounter with God. He didn’t meet Moses just to let him know what a supernatural God He was. He wasn’t there just to inform him that He was aware of what was happening to the children of Israel. He was there in all His glory, holiness and perfection, not only to make known His deep compassion for His people but also to initiate His plan to rescue them. Many of us do not even know the depth of love our awesome God has for us fallen sinful man. Yet He took the trouble to manifest Himself to us in order to set the rescue plan He has for us in motion.

Hardship has a way of making us lose our perspective about God. How often have people who professed to love God would doubt Him in a moment of despair? Many have even wondered if God really even cares. But the truth is that He does and He loves us beyond words. He had all the plans worked out long before the foundation of the world. God knew exactly what the descendants of Israel would go through long before the events that had happened to them, happened. To fulfill His promise, God was now initiating the move in His call to Moses. He said, “So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey….”

In verse 6, we are already told that God not only heard their cries but remembered the covenant He had made with their forefathers, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He could see how they were being oppressed by the Egyptians. He knew their plight in every facet and in all its precise details. What God said to Moses leaves us with a deep assurance that just as He knew about the affliction of the descendants of Israel, He also knows all about our present pressure and affliction. And like the Israelites, every single prayer that we have uttered to Him in our desperation has not gone unheard.

God does know our plight. He cares everything about us. As the Apostle Peter wrote in his letter that urged the church in affliction on what to do, we too can “…cast out cares on Him for He cares for us.” The truth is that God cares everything about us. He not only had heard our prayers but He is concretely working something to set us free from our dilemma and predicament. The unchanging truth is this: the God who rescued Israel from the affliction of the Egyptians is the same God who can and will rescue us from our afflictions today. He is the same God we worship and serve today. He will hear our cry as He had heard the cry of the children of Israel. He will come to our rescue as he had rescued them. So, let us draw near with confidence. There is no place too deep that God cannot reach and no trouble too big that God cannot help us solve. He will see us through if we let Him.