The Divine Architect

January 29

Exodus 1-2

Psalm 17:10-13

Proverbs 3:24-26

Matthew 19

The Divine Architect

“God heard their groaning and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.” Exodus 2:24-25 NIV

Exodus 1 and 2 are very comforting passages to me. At the end of chapter 2 we see the Israelites groaning to God and crying out to Him in their slavery asking Him to help. This came as no surprise to Him. He wasn’t up in Heaven carrying on His daily routine and all the sudden heard them cry out to Him. He didn’t suddenly have to come up with a plan to save them. He had been preparing for it all along. Forty years earlier a baby was born in Egypt to a Hebrew woman. His mother placed him in a basket and put him in the Nile to avoid being killed along with all the other Hebrew boys. He was found by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in Pharaoh’s palace. God was preparing Moses from birth to deliver His people from the bondage of slavery. He had a blueprint, and He worked His divine plan so that at the time that the Israelites cried out to Him in their bondage, He had Moses ready to step in and deliver them. His plan and His timing are always perfect.

It is no less that way in our lives today. God knows what my needs are today, and He has prepared for all of them. He also knows what my needs will be in the future, and He is preparing events and circumstances in my life today to meet those needs. I can go forward in confidence knowing that the Divine Architect has gone before me and that His timing and plan is perfect.