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God Sees You And Hears You

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God Sees You And Hears You

Sometimes when we are going through a difficult trial in life we are tempted to believe God isn’t with us. Maybe He just really isn’t good? Maybe He is blind to what is really going on in our lives? Maybe He really doesn’t care? Maybe He doesn’t understand just how hard things are for us?

This is incredibly challenging for those of us who follow Christ and this is exactly where faith comes in.

Everything in us wants to be delivered out of the trials we find ourselves in.

  • We don’t want to lose a family member.
  • We don’t want to have to stay in our jobs that we don’t like.
  • We don’t want to have to deal with relational conflicts around us.
  • We don’t want to have to handle money problems.
  • We don’t want to have physical or mental health issues.

I was recently reading through Exodus and noticed something for the first time when reading over Exodus 4. I’ve read through this countless times and I love when God always shows me something new in Scripture.

The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years…..400 years! Imagine going through a trial that lasted 400 years. You, your children, their children, and so on…all suffered under the same trial. To the point that if you were living in this time period, you would believe that is all that existed. You would believe you were intended to be a slave. Imagine how hard to it would be to have hope that God would deliver you when you know it hasn’t happened in over 400 years?!

So long story short, as Moses and Aaron are going along and telling the people what God wanted them to say as He was preparing to deliver them out of captivity, I stumbled upon this:

“And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.” – Exodus 4:31

Noticed the people’s reaction. They bowed their heads and worshiped. Why? Because God had seen them. Because God had heard them. The reality hit them that this same God, creator of the heavens and the earth, had heard their cries and seen their tears.

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How To Find Rest In Jesus

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How To Find Rest In Jesus

In a recent Time magazine article it cited that 91% of Gen Z feel stressed out and anxious all the time. Gen X before them is a little bit lower but still in the high 80s percentage wise. What we can see is that with every new generation we are becoming more anxious, stressed, and busy as a people.

Don’t you think it’s a problem when we ask each other how things are going we all answer typically with “I’m so busy right now.” We’re glancing at our phones or watches every two seconds and can barely pay attention to anything. We’re going so fast that most information we take in, we only scan in. We scroll. Click through. We keep going and going and I don’t know about you, but it feels like to be things keep speeding up year after year.

We are moving at an unsustainable pace and We are tired.

So, what do we do with that? How are we supposed to live this life with everything going on?

Here’s a message I gave in regards to how to find rest in Jesus.

You can also click here to watch the message.

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30

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Scripture on Rest

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Scripture on Rest

Our culture is going at a million miles per hour, anxiety is increasing in so many of us, we are “busy” whenever anyone asks how we are doing, and at the end of the day we find ourselves utterly exhausted.

We are scurrying from place to place always looking down at our phones or watches, barely being able to pay attention to anything for more than 2 seconds. We consume information more than ever, but in short spurts of scrolling and clicking that we never really take anything in.

We are tired.

One of the main reasons I think we are so tired all the time especially for those who follow Jesus is that we are looking to find rest in all the wrong places. Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime can’t be the source of our “rest” as we check out on the couch day after day. We also can’t fool ourselves to thinking how we will find rest when we get our agendas done. They’ll never get done. There will always be more things to do.

Then what are we supposed to do? How can we find rest?

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Scripture on Life

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Scripture on Life

So many of us are walking around trying to find the meaning of life. We are wanting to have a purpose, to have value, to have meaning. We look for it in our jobs, in our families, in our entertainment, in relationships, you name it, we are searching. Why? Because we know something is off. We know there is something wrong and somewhere, somehow, out there, there is more to life.

Have you ever felt this way? Have you found yourself wandering through life that when the moments come up for you to reflect about it, you JUST KNOW something else is going on, but can’t quite put your finger on it?

Well, I have good news for you. There IS a deeper meaning to life. You DO have value, purpose, and meaning. So MUCH more than you even realize. There IS a calling on your life to do something specific and that would provide much more fulfillment than you could ever imagine.

Jesus is that answer.

Jesus provides us with life. And not just eternal life, but abundant life…right here, and right now.

The reason it feels like something is off and there is more is because there IS something off with the world and with our lives and there IS something more. We were created by God with such great purposes and values, that along the way as sin entered the world…we along with the world became broken.

The good news of Jesus is that He came to fix all of this. To fix this world, to fix you and me. By living a perfect life, dying on the cross, and rising again from the grave, He defeated death and sin in Victory.

It is now through Jesus, that we know our purpose, our value, and our calling in our lives. It is only through Jesus, that we can truly now experience what real life is all about.

Here is what the Bible has to say with scripture on life:

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Scripture on Eternal Life

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Scripture on Eternal Life

I don’t know about you but I know I don’t think about eternity enough. It’s so easy to just look down on the things right in front of us and be consumed with everything going in our lives, that we never look up and think about eternal things.

But when it comes down to it, for those who follow Jesus, we are told we are forgiven…forever. For all of our past, present, and future sins, and that we will have eternal life with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the church. It’s incredible to think that this really is going to happen. Jesus really is going to return. Sin really will be no more, and death and satan really will be defeated.

When we dwell on eternal things, our perspective on life here starts to change. We don’t get so consumed with our day to day lives, but rather think about how we are impacting eternity with the way we are living today. We don’t have to get anxious or worried, because God knows exactly what is going to happen and we’ll be with Him forever anyway.

The war is already over. Be encouraged in the midst of your daily battles, Jesus really has already won. We have Victory through Christ.

Here is what the Bible has to say with scripture on eternal life: