FAITH CAPSULE: Let God alone know by crying out to Him alone.

Exodus 3:1-10

It is written, “And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.” (Exodus 3:7-9) Taskmasters represented horrible pit in the life of the Israelites while they were in Egypt. Horrible pit situation is not a beautiful place to be; it is an unpleasant location. Horrible pit is a place of pain, deprivation, and aggravation. In your life are you experiencing a though time, a challenging time under any taskmaster? Horrible pit is not a place for a believer to be quiet but to cry out unto God. To be quiet in the place of horrible pit situation is to have shut one’s door of deliverance. The children of Israel opened up their door to deliverance when they lifted up their voice and cried to the Lord. Psalm 81:10 buttress, “I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
The cry of the children of Israel did not find a deaf ear because the Lord inclined His ear to their cry and extended His hand of deliverance through His servant Moses.
Israelites came out of horrible pit situation. God was not, and He is not a partial God when He brought David out of horrible pit situation. Just as the Israel, King David also cried to the Lord God for his deliverance from his horrible pit situation. King David testified, “I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.” (Psalm 40:1-2) Crying is not a sign of weakness and tears running down the cheeks is not always a demonstration of crying. God heard King David’s cry and he was brought out of the miry clay. Miry clay is an indication that the horrible pit could also be a place of stagnation or constant falling. Horrible situation can possibly be a place where stability is absent in man’s life. Does your challenging world represent a horrible pit situation? Do not shy from waiting on God by crying out loud to God. Cry out to God!

Prayer for today: Cry out and ask for the outstretch hand of God for your deliverance.