In Exodus chapter three, verse seven, God was concerned about the misery of the people in Egypt. He is aware of the distress of all His people. God hears the cry of those who are troubled and oppressed. In such times God’s people must cry out to Him that he might mercifully intervene on their behalf. Whether our oppression comes from circumstances, people, Satan, sin, or the world, God’s comfort, grace, and help are more than sufficient to meet our needs. In God’s time, He will rescue us.
God witness the treatment of the Egyptians towards the Israelites. The “ruthless” increase in enslavement goes beyond servitude to a new level of mistreatment. The type of slavery for the Israelites was racial, permanent, hereditary, and inhuman. The forced labor of making mortar and bricks to build these store cities and work the fields of the Egyptians gave them no time to look after their livestock and fields. The work arrangement would have resulted in women and children caring for herds and housing. Education and health care would suffer, as long hours would result in no time for learning and more sickness and injury.
Today, many people are mentally and physically exhausted trying to make ends meet, working long hours at jobs that do not cover all their necessities. Parents are involved in families where they work in two or three workplaces to fulfill the expenses to support themselves and their children. Some individuals are laboring eighty-hour work weeks to get ahead financially in life. However, it seems the finances of our labor do not meet the expectations as we thought.
Believers must cry out to God for help in whatever circumstances they face that may seem impossible. God does hear those who look to Him, depend, and trust Him to work on their behalf. No matter how it may seem, we must speak the Word positively especially using His Word. We must see God coming through for us in our circumstances.