"And God Knew" — Andrew Forrest

Exodus 2:23-25

23 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. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

Most of us understand that life requires us to persevere through hard things. What makes hard things unbearable is the thought that God isn’t with us, that we have been abandoned.

Here, the Israelites cry out because of the evil of their situation and the Bible tells us that “God saw...and God knew” [v. 25].

God sees your struggles today, too, and he is at work to bring good out of what is evil. (see Psalm 10:14)

Don’t give up—keep going. Rescue is coming.