The subject of care & the subject of monitoring

The original Korean text: https://blog.naver.com/stevision/220611025349

 

When the Israelites lived in Egypt, they were the subject of God's care. God punished Egypt for abusing Israel and rescued them from Egypt. During the rescue, the sea was split, the manna fell, the quails fell down to the ground, there were columns of cloud and fire, and water came out of the rock. And Egyptian troops chasing Israel were exterminated in the sea.

 

 

When Israel settled in Canaan after the Exodus and the wandering in wilderness, they could live well, and some of them accumulated wealth. Now the position of Israel had changed and it became the subject of God's monitoring. God inflicted strict judgments upon Israel when he saw pride, idolatry, persecution of the weak, lies and lawlessness in Israel.

 

 

David had been a subject of God's care before he became king. God was a shepherd to David and delivered him from Saul's persecution. But when David became king and could live well-off, be became a subject of God's monitoring. When he bullied the weak, Uriah and his wife Bathsheba, four of his children had to die.

 

 

When you have to pray for daily food, you live in the care of God, however, if you can live well after the days of hard time, you're a subject of the monitoring of the righteous and just eyes of God, though, of course, God's love and care will not cease even then.

 

 

I say this to let you know that those in a difficult situation are never in the worse and helpless situation. The attention and the love of the merciful God are first directed to those in a difficult situations. Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow. This means that we must live depending on the love of God and without losing heart.

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By the way, according to the Bible, there was a man who unusually became the subject of God's monitoring. He is Abraham. God was watching Abraham's deeds, thinking he might actually kill his beloved son Isaac and offer him as a burnt offering. This means that Abraham had so big a faith that God even monitored him. Abraham lived under God's gaze of trust, not of suspicion. All of us, whether rich or poor, must always be the subject of God's care and trust. Like Abraham.

 

 

"You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. (Ex 22:22-24)"

 

 

"But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy! Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the Lord, exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. (Ps 68:3-5)"