"And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them…"(Ex. 3:7-9).
I'm so encourage by the words of the Lord to Moses when He said, "I have come down to deliver them..." When the Lord said those words the children of Israel were under Egyptian bondage. The phrase doesn't just speak of God coming to Moses at the burning bush. It speaks of his divine work, activity, and power that was about to be manifested to deliver God's people from Egyptian bondage.
The Israelites had come into Egypt because of a famine in the land of Canaan some 400 years earlier. Although God provided for the Israelites in Egypt by providentially making Joseph a ruler in Egypt, apparently they got too comfortable there. They were there longer than they should have been, and as a result ended up as slaves. But notice that in verse nine of the above passage the Lord said, "Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me." Their cry came up and God came down. In other words, when the children of Israel humbled themselves and cried out to God in prayer for help, God heard them and He came down in power to free His people. The Psalmist wrote, "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles" (Psalm 34:6). Are you in distress? Are you going through such a difficult time that you don't feel like you can make it another day? Let your cry come up to heaven and the God of heaven will come down to you.
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