God Sees You And Hears You

Sometimes when we are going through a difficult trial in life we are tempted to believe God isn’t with us. Maybe He just really isn’t good? Maybe He is blind to what is really going on in our lives? Maybe He really doesn’t care? Maybe He doesn’t understand just how hard things are for us?

This is incredibly challenging for those of us who follow Christ and this is exactly where faith comes in.

Everything in us wants to be delivered out of the trials we find ourselves in.

• We don’t want to lose a family member.
• We don’t want to have to stay in our jobs that we don’t like.
• We don’t want to have to deal with relational conflicts around us.
• We don’t want to have to handle money problems.
• We don’t want to have physical or mental health issues.

I was recently reading through Exodus and noticed something for the first time when reading over Exodus 4. I’ve read through this countless times and I love when God always shows me something new in Scripture.

The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years…..400 years! Imagine going through a trial that lasted 400 years. You, your children, their children, and so on…all suffered under the same trial. To the point that if you were living in this time period, you would believe that is all that existed. You would believe you were intended to be a slave. Imagine how hard to it would be to have hope that God would deliver you when you know it hasn’t happened in over 400 years?!

So long story short, as Moses and Aaron are going along and telling the people what God wanted them to say as He was preparing to deliver them out of captivity, I stumbled upon this:

“And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.” – Exodus 4:31

Noticed the people’s reaction. They bowed their heads and worshiped. Why? Because God had seen them. Because God had heard them. The reality hit them that this same God, creator of the heavens and the earth, had heard their cries and seen their tears.

God Knows You

Rest assured that no matter what you’re going through today, God sees you.

God hears your cries and cares for you.

I know that feels impossible at times, but that is what faith is. The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

Sometimes we don’t have a hard time “with faith” believing Jesus lived a perfect life, died for our past, present, and future sins on the cross, and rose again from the dead defeating death and sin in Victory….but then we experience a trial and we throw that same faith out the window.

I’m guilty of this all the time and I’m afraid sometimes when “life hits us” and things “get hard for us,” we forget about our faith and quickly try to deal with things ourselves, forgetting about Jesus in the process.

Jesus is the only one who can truly pull us through our trials.

If God is the creator of everything and knows all, then surely He knows you. If God can be everywhere at all times, then surely He can see you. If God sent His one and only son for you, then surely He cares for you.

I don’t know what you’re going through today, but remember even in the midst of some of the most difficult trials in life, that God sees you and hears you. He is there for you. He will pull you through it. Just come to Him.

Mike Mobley

Follower of Christ, Husband to Joelle, Father to Peyton & Matthew, Finance & Operations Pastor at 121 Community Church, SAG-AFTRA Actor, Founder of Before The Cross, Owner of MMWCS, and Podcast Host for the Not Quite There Show.

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