Exodus 2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Verse 24 bothers me. The idea that God “remembered his covenant” seems to me to imply that he forgot it at some point. Commentary says that is not so, that “remembered” in this sense means “turn his attention to” instead of “think of again after forgetting.”
Exodus 2:22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
These ponderings put me in mind of Isaiah 43:19, “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Times that feel to us like being forgotten are actually times where God is working, making a way in our wilderness that we can’t even perceive yet. I think God loves us way too much to forget about us.
Exodus 2:23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
Precious Savior, Thank You for Your fierce and abiding love. We can’t do a single thing but love and praise You, and we often do that so very imperfectly, but You love us beyond measure simply because we are Yours. Help us to always remember that, especially when we feel forgotten, broken, alone. We are Yours. Always. Thank You, Jesus. Amen.
Exodus 2:24-25 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.
Have a blessed day.