7The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”(3:7-10)EXODUS 1-3
MATTHEW 15:21-39
32Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”
JOURNAL
God is aware of our suffering...this could not be more clear than in these verses. While he does make provisions to end it, he also allows it. This is often hard to accept, especially when I am right in the midst of difficulty. However I truly can take comfort in knowing that God gets it, allows it and will ultimately end it.
God is aware of our suffering...this could not be more clear than in these verses. While he does make provisions to end it, he also allows it. This is often hard to accept, especially when I am right in the midst of difficulty. However I truly can take comfort in knowing that God gets it, allows it and will ultimately end it.
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 CORINTHIANS 12:8-10
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