September 8th, 2024

4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

In the text above, God shows direct proof that He listens to us, he hears our thoughts and prayers and knows you deeply, more than anyone else. I could be married for 50 years and God would still know me infinitely more than my wife. Moses and the people of Israel who have been through a lot of suffering and are lost from their God given land, feel in shambles and it is here that God shows Himself to Moses and is such a holy and incomprehensible figure that Moses is afraid to even look at Him. God shares that He knows their troubles and want to lead them back to their homeland, which He eventually does. Every thought we think, God knows of, we are a book that He had already memorized at the beginning of creation. Since he does this, our only consistently sufficient solution to any difficult thoughts or struggles that we may have in life can be solved by looking to God, involving repentance, worship and prayer.

People like to say that God does not care for them because they do not see His will affecting them in any positive way but this could not be further from the truth as the proof we have of His intense grace and care for us is through His son, Christ Jesus. God came down to earth and died for our sins, so that we may be saved through our belief in Him. It is seen many times throughout the old testament that God builds His relationships and covenants with His people based on the unrelenting faith that they have for Him. Moses showed his faith through the persecution he and his people faced in Egypt. Even when we are going through tough times, we must remember that God is with us and he feels for us through the mediation of Christ Jesus.

God knew their troubles and ours before they even occured. He uses His infinite knowledge and perspective to superiorly put His will into the world, God does not take advantage of that fact to those who believe in Him. We have to show constant trust that His will and His ways are the correct way. God's compassion and superiority is seen through the entirety of the Bible and the fact that through all our sin, He had still planned to come down to Earth and take the punishment for our sins is a true miracle for us that we must appreciate with all our hearts. Jesus lived through our pain and temptations as humans and even through all that struggle, he never sinned once and showed perfect humility and character. Jesus shows that God can sympathize with us perfectly and because of that, we have no excuse to not look to Christ. He is the mediator between us as lowly sinners and the glorious God the Father. Christ set the example for us and we must live up to our faith, as again, He is always there for us and knows us deeply.

To people who may not be aware of such wonderful knowledge, we must put Christ in conversation of profound thought and patience, as talking about Jesus to share His message should always be done out of pure love, so that people may accept Him as their savior and that through troubles and concerns can be looked after by the Lord. God will never misinterpret us, he knows the true motives of our heart and his grace allowed any form of goodness to be in there, without God, we are just sinners who deserve nothing but punishment. If God can sympathize with our struggle as humans and has given us a way out of our sinful nature, we must show that same type of compassion to others through the help of the Spririt. If He can forgive our sins, then we must be able to forgive the sins of others and not hold grudges and contemptuousness in our hearts, weighing us down and keeping us away from God's holy influence (the Holy Spirit).

It is Jesus Christ who renews the old testament, who proves God's perfection and grace, who breaks the chains of sin that hold us back as humans, who shows furious compassion of a godlike nature, who has perfect humility, who never sinned and who is the solution. We need to believe and worship Him as long as we are breathing on this earth.

Thank you lord for all you have given me and I am very sorry for any sins I have commited in the days of life you have given me. Keep from arrogance and boasting in myself and show me humility and your nature in how I interract with the world. You are perfect.
Amen