TEXT: ‘Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you’ (Isaiah 49:15 GNT). During Job’s great trial of affliction, he complained, ‘My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me’ (Job 19:14 NLT). Have you ever felt like that and said the same as Job? To make matters worse, Job thought God had forgotten him too, but he found out later that nothing was further from the truth. The end God planned was a restoration of health, finances, and family. In Part 1, we studied how God won’t forget the barren, those interceding for their family, and those who honour Him by doing His will. In Part 2, we consider another three examples of those God won’t forget! 4. God remembered His covenant and helped those suffering because of oppression The psalmist said, ‘Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?’ (Psalm 43:2). The Children of Israel were being badly mistreated in Egypt, ‘So God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob’ (Exodus 2:24). God told Moses, ‘You can be sure that I have heard the groans...
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TEXT: ‘Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you’ (Isaiah 49:15 GNT). The previous verse to our text says, ‘But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me”’ (Isaiah 49:14). How often do we feel like that and even say to others, “God has forgotten me”? You may be thinking the same thing right now. I want to encourage you, although it may appear God has forgotten you, He cannot and will not. Today’s Teaching focusses on six instances where scripture reminds us that God remembers. Let these examples turn you from despair to praise. If God remembered them, He will remember you too! Part 1 studies the first three. 1. God remembered the one who was barren – ‘Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children’ (Genesis 30:22 GNT). For years Rachel had endured the stigma and shame of barrenness. She was, after all, the one Jacob really loved and had worked for all those years. Time flew so quickly; such was his love for her. Cheated by Laban, Jacob ended up with two wives....
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