Got problems?

Been helping some people work through some issues - sorry, I can't get any more specific than that. But this morning I am feeling the desperation of someone who knows that someone is about to drive a car off a cliff (metaphorically) and is headed for deep difficulties, and you've done what you can, and hearts are not changing.

As I was wrestling with that, I ran across Exodus 4:31, and was struck by it's simple statement. First, the background:

The Israelites were slaves, in cruel bondage, in Egypt. Egyptian task-masters were carving furrows in the backs of Hebrew slaves with their whips. The Egyptians were practicing infanticide, killing all the male Jewish newborns they could get their hands on. It was an outwardly hopeless situation. But God had made some promises, hundreds of years earlier, and now those promises were coming due, so He sends Moses to deliver His people. Moses has just arrived on the scene, and shared with the people God's plans to deliver them:

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped. Exodus 4:31 (NASB)

Got problems, Christian? Meditate on that verse a little while, and see if it does not produce hope and worship.