June 16, 2024
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Reading along with us in Matthew and Exodus? Here’s today’s reading:
Exodus 2 (NIV)
The Birth of Moses
1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch.……Continue Reading
Exodus 2
Pharoah fails to kill all the male babies thanks to all the mid wives. For they feared God and were blessed because of it. So Pharoah finds another way to kill the male babies. It would appear that all the baby boys from birth to around two years old were killed. I say this because Moses`s brother [Aaron] was three years older than Moses. Exodus 7:7. Miriam the sister was about 10 to 12 years old when Moses was born. All three of them were children of a Levi named Amram and his wife Jochebed. 6:20; 15:20. Moses was 40 years old when he killed the Egyptian and fled. Acts 7:23.He was also after being adopted by Pharoah`s wife trained in all the ways of being an Egyptian with all the wisdom, and was mighty in words and in deeds. Acts 7:22. Then after another 40 years; he was brought back to save Israel. This seems unreal to us but God is the God of the impossible. He was not only old in our thinking but must had been in great shape. But Moses being probably proud with much wisdom and physical strength had to be broken down and that is probably why he had to spend another 40 years in the wilderness before God called him and could finally use him for God`s glory. He had to be humble before God. God will not share His glory with anyone else. He also by waiting got to know the terrain of where he would lead Israel. Moses learned to save Israel in God`s time and not his. When we walk with God; we should be open to His timing for things in our life. God bless.
God is faithful, upholding his covenant.
If only we would keep every facet of our word and comittments. Our own relationships would better if we did.
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.
God works in unexpected ways. I think of the times when I am afraid of a particular outcome and how God worked in the circumstances for a different outcome than I thought. Moses mother trusted God with her son when the likely outcome was his death. God placed him in a position for a deliverance for His people. It’s interesting how God uses the most vulnerable…a baby. Makes me think of Jesus birth and the threat on his life when the most vulnerable.
Exodus 2
Exodus 2
What an amazing account of God’s sovereignty and how He can turn things around in ways we can never expect. To think, after being afraid of Moses being killed, Moses’ mother ends up getting paid to nurse him. And it is none other than Pharaoh’s daughter who rescues him. So Moses is raised in wealth with the best training that Egypt had. Unfortunately Moses lets his anger get the best of him…something we all need to be careful of and keep all of our emotions in check. But all this just leads Moses to the next stage of God’s will, being in Midian and being provided for by this family. All the while the Jews still suffer, but God hears their groaning and He cares…which will lead us to the next stage of God’s plan for Moses….
Exodus 2
As a mother I can’t imagine how scary it must have been for her to trust God’s provision and put her baby in that basket! Knowing a probable outcome was death, she did it and trusted God and how amazing for God to take that situation and bring such good from it! She actually gets paid to nurse her baby she likely thought would not even survive! Definitely one of those trust and see that God works things out for good moments!