GOD SEND’S HELP.

In Exodus 1 a new King comes to rule in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph’s accomplishments. The Israelite's had multiplied greatly in Egypt that it posed a great threat to this new King. He ordered the Israelite's to be oppressed with hard labor. He put slave masters over them who forced them to build Pithom and Rameses as storage cities for the King. But the harder they afflicted them the more they multiplied. So the Egyptians demanded even more of them. They forced them to work hard and make brick and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the field. The King went further and asked the mid wives to kill the baby boys at birth. Seeing that the Hebrew midwives did not consent to this, the King commanded his people to throw all the Hebrew boys born into the Nile River.

The people of Israel groaned because of the slavery. They called upon God to deliver them from the hands of the Egyptians. God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God planned for the birth of Moses and arranged for Pharaoh’s daughter to take care of him as his own son. Later on Moses realized his true identity and fled to Midian were after a long period of time he encountered God in a burning bush while taking care of the flock of his Father in law.

The Lord said to him, “I have seen the affliction of my people and I have heard their cries when the Egyptian slave masters hurt them. I have come down to save them from the Egyptians”. God sent Moses to deliver his people. He commissioned him to go before the King to get them out and lead them to a good land, a fertile land flowing with milk and honey.

When you study this scripture, it shows that many years had passed by after Joseph Egypt’s governor died and the reigning Pharaoh. We only see the descendants of Jacob who had greatly multiplied in the land, just as the Lord had promised Jacob that his descendants would be numerous. The Israelite's had lived in the land for four hundred years. Time had much passed by that Joseph’s family was long forgotten. The Israelite's had become slaves in the land, that years ago had enjoyed living securely because of Joseph. Things had greatly changed for them. And the Egyptians started oppressing them. They remembered the stories told of their Father’s and how God favored them, and started crying out to God for help. God heard their cry and saw the sufferings they went through and sent them help.

God is always concerned for his children. He hears them when they call on Him with a sincere heart. He is concerned about their pain. He does not leave his children to suffer on their own. All you need to do is exercise patience. Wait on God’s deliverance. Keep on praying and believing and surely you shall see God’s hand; as the Israelite's did while in Egypt. He created us, so he knows us and will always send us the help we need.