December 12, 2020
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Reading along with us in some Exodus? Here’s today’s reading:
Exodus 2 (NIV)
The Birth of Moses
1Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.......Continue Reading
Must have been so hard for Moses’ mother to put him in that basket and send him down the river but she was following Pharaoh’s direction just with her own maternal instinct! But God certainly had a plan for that baby from the moment of conception as I believe He does for all of us!
Moses could have assimilated with Egyptians but he still knew things were wrong and had a heart for the Israelites and yet like Jesus at the end of the chapter was rejected by his own people.
Exodus 2
Exodus 2
Exodus 2
Exodus 2
What a twist of fate that is not fate at all but the hand of God moving, that Moses is not only saved but his mother gets paid for nursing her son and it is sanctioned by the state!!!! What an encouragement for us to believe God to do things that are not only unlikely but impossible!
And although God would not sanction this murder, He uses it to move His plan along. And once again God uses interactions around a well for character to be shown and connections made that will lead to good things for the protagonist in God’s plan. Although all very familiar, still glorious!
Moses’ life is preserved in an ark and nursed by his own mother. God manages to place a Hebrew in the upper echelons of Egypt once again. We don’t know much about his early life in Pharoah’s home, but I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to think of the relationships he may have had there.
Moses’ kindness towards the Midianites earns him lodging and a wife.
God remembers His covenant. “Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.”
23During 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. 24God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.