Morning Thoughts | Vol. 1

This morning in my Bible reading, I read this verse: 

"...Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  God saw the people of Israel - and God knew."  

Exodus 2:23-25

That last part really stood out to me today - God knew.  It wasn't that He didn't know before and now He did, it wasn't that He forgot and then remembered.  He always knows, He always remembers.  Another version, instead of "knew", says He "acknowledged them".  He marked His covenant with the Israelites in His mind - our God who is always faithful to His covenants, though we never are. He saw their suffering, and He knew.  

How grateful I am that He is a God who knows, who sees, who keeps His covenant when we are faithless, who is always good and worthy of our trust.

"It is good indeed that God remembers His covenants.  We are a forgetful people who fall short in our commitments, but the Lord never fails to keep His promises.  From our perspective, He may seem slow in doing so, but rest assured that He will always keep His covenant words.  If we trust in Him, we can count on Him today to save us and to give us many more blessings besides."

-Tabletalk Magazine, January 2022

Note: Sometimes I make sharing things on this blog too complicated - sometimes I want to write about something I read in my devotions, or a quick point that's on my mind, but it feels too short for a post.  But what's wrong with short posts, anyway?  So I might just stick those short things in a quick "Morning Thoughts" post in the future.  Hence the "Vol. 1".