Exiting Egypt Chapter 6 P4

Exiting Egypt

“God’s Great Encouragement”

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 6 P4

4. God Shares His Compassion

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant (Ex. 6:5 NKJV)

God cares for His people, which means that God cares for all of us who are believers in Jesus Christ. No matter how crushed, broken, and desperate we may become, God is concerned. He has great compassion for us, and will help meet our needs. He will redeem and deliver us from all our troubles and enslavements to this world.

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand (Isa. 41:10 NKJV)

And so it is in God’s strength that He will help us and hold us up, therefore, we do not need to fear at all what man may do, because in Christ we can do all things.

Now comes God’s Encouragement for His People

A young man was learning to be a paratrooper. Before his first jump he was given these instructions: “Jump when you are told. Count to ten and pull the ripcord. In the unlikely event your parachute doesn’t open, pull the emergency ripcord. When you get down, a truck will be there to take you back of base.”

The young man memorized these instructions and climbed aboard the plane. The plane climbed to ten thousand feet and the paratroopers began to jump. When the young man was told to jump, he jumped, counted ten and pulled the ripcord. Nothing happened. So he pulled the emergency ripcord. Still nothing happened. “Oh great,” he said, “And I supposed the truck won’t be there when I get down either!”

That is where the nation of Israel now finds itself. God heard their cry and sent Moses. They got all excited and praised God. But things didn’t happen like they thought. In fact, things got worse. They were now at the point of breaking. What more could happen to them? And so they turn on Moses and Moses turns to the Lord. And now, the Lord, after encouraging Moses, now encourages the people.