Good & Spacious Land

“The LORD said, ‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people…I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from…and to bring then up out of that land into a good and spacious land.’” Ex. 3:2-8

I facilitate Griefshare at our church on Wednesday nights which is the backdrop for lots of pain and suffering. The emotional temperature within those walls is a scorching heat that is both uncomfortable and tough to endure. The shared love within those walls in a short period of time is nothing short of a spiritual triumph. God sees our pain and acts upon it by placing us in a spot to minister within each other’s pain. Through our giving we receive and vice versa.

God saw our little band of sufferers individually first and collectively second. Our ‘good and spacious land’ is in the confines of four little walls at our church as we share our common slave driver – earthly death of loved ones.

In the verses above when God was speaking to Moses regarding the Israelites’ suffering, God saw (misery), heard (cries in prayer), felt (concerned), and acted with a plan (came down, rescued and delivered). This is the same God whom we serve in 2010! He is not some God who has become weary over the generations, nor is He a God who has forgotten how to save. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He continuously reminds us through Scripture of this as He introduces Himself to those characters in the Bible as their Father. He does a call-out of His children from the beginning of time to remind us that we have the same family standing that those champion Christians had throughout time. He is the same God who rules from the same throne.

Whatever is enslaving you today, God sees, God hears, God feels and God will act and bring you into his good and spacious land! Cry out to your Father, the Father of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and many more siblings in Christ.