God knows your name!
He knew the twelve sons of Jacob… Joseph, who became Prime Minister in Egypt, and his brothers: “Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher” (Exodus 1:2-4).
Four hundred years before the Exodus, when they first arrived in Egypt, “the total number of Jacob’s descendants was seventy” (Exodus 1:5), but God blessed them and multiplied them until they became “extremely numerous” (Exodus 1:7) … probably over two million (Exodus 12:37). And still, God knew them by name. God always knows.
God also knew their struggles.
God knew that after Joseph’s generation was gone, a new Egyptian Pharoah “assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor” (Exodus 1:11). “They worked the Israelites ruthlessly and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them” (Exodus 1:13-14).
“The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God. God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the Israelites, and God knew” (Exodus 2:23–25).
“Our Lord is great, vast in power; his understanding is infinite” (Psalm 147:5). “The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding” (Isaiah 40:28). “Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God” (Romans 11:33).
“God knew” … God knows. He knows your name and He knows your struggles. God always knows.
“… think on these things” (Philippians 4:8, KJV).
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