23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew (Exodus 2)
As conditions worstened in Egypt for the people of Israel, they cried out to God. God heard; He remembered; He saw, and He knew. God hears it all, that we know. Did God forget? Remembering does not necessarily imply forgetting, but indicates that it was time to do something about a promise. He saw. That too does not indicate He could not see before, but that He looked at the situation and decided the time was right. God knew. Knew what? Where is the direct object of the verb here? There is too much to list: God knew the situation; He knew the hearts of His people; He knew what He wanted to do, so He did. It all begins to unfold when God's people call out to Him. We cannot complain that God does not see, hear, or know; our responsibility is to call out to Him in prayer. Then things will begin to happen.
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