Exodus 3:7 The LORD said,"I
have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard
their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 I have come
down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from
that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk
and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,
Hivites, and Jebusites. 9 And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to
me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them. 10 So now go,
and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of
Egypt."…..
…..'16"Go and bring
together the elders of Israel and tell them,'The LORD, the God of your fathers,
appeared to me- the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob- saying,"I have
attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt, 17 and I
have promised a that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the
land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,
to a land flowing with milk and honey."
The essential nature of God is summed up in these words: "I have surely seen the affliction... I have
heard their cry... I have come down to deliver them." The Divine
Creator of 'all that is, seen and unseen' takes notice! This is not just seeing
creation. No - this is seeing the marginalized and the outcast.
Those who are afflicted are seen/heard by God, and a Divine
response can be anticipated. Nobody is too beaten down to escape the loving
protection of God. All are God's creation - and the Lord God loves them all.
Refrain:
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
Ordinary
28
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The
Scripture passage for the day is drawn from Reuben Job and Norman
Shawchuck, A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants, (Nashville,
The Upper Room 1983), .
This
reflection is from my own devotional exercises for the day.
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