God is active in the midst of hard relationships, victimization, and oppression. The Israelites’ exodus from Egypt began because God was responding to the cries of slaves, even though they were not even crying out to him. Jesus himself, our Great High Priest, entered into this world of being misunderstood and violated as he was “made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest” who acts on behalf of the hurt and mistreated (Heb. 2:17).
