Verse of the day: Exodus
2:2-3 So the woman conceived and
bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him
three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark
of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it,
and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
In
chapter 1 of Exodus we saw the midwives’ willingness to disobey the king’s
command because of their fear of God. Now, we see Moses’ mother willing to
disobey the king’s command in an act of faith. Hebrews 11:23 tells us, “By
faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because
they saw that he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s
commandment.” Living a life of faith will bring us to those crossroads where we
must decide if we are going to trust our own wisdom, and what we see, or God’s
truth, and with our eyes of faith see the unseen. It means trusting God with every
decision we make, and trusting that God’s plan will be fulfilled regardless of
what circumstances might be showing us. Moses’ parents did not know what was God’s
plan was for their son Moses, but they knew they could trust God to take care
of their child when the time came about when they could no longer hide him. I would
like to remind us today that this is the same God who today can still protect
us, and protect our children. Too often, we parents will take risky, and
sacrificial, steps of faith, in serving the Lord, but then when the Lord wants
us to dedicate and give our children over to Him, we act as if God cannot take
care of them. We become overprotective of them, and shield them far more than
is good for them. The children God has blessed us with are His. We have them
for a short period of time, and during that time we are to dedicate them to
Him, lead them to Jesus, and release them to Him so that He can fulfill HIS
plan for their live, not ours. Proverbs 22:6 commands us, “Train up a child in the
way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Before
Moses was born to his parents, God already had a plan for his life. His people
were already enslaved in Egypt, and God had a plan to lead them out of Egypt by
using Moses to lead them out. In the life of Joseph, God used the envy and
hatred of his brother to set him on his journey to Egypt. In this instance, God
used the king’s own fear of how great the Hebrew population was growing, and
his wicked attempts to hinder it, to essentially force Moses’ parents to let go
of Moses, and entrust his life to the Lord. Upon trusting Moses to God by
casting him into the river, in a basket, I am sure that his mother never
imagined that Moses would end up being raised under Pharaoh’s own roof (v. 10);
the man who sought to end his life to begin with. Not only did Moses grow up as
the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, but his own mother was called upon, and paid, to
nurse her own child after Pharaoh’s daughter found him. When we read how God’s
providence brings these things about when we live by faith, how can we not
trust Him with the lives of our children? Hebrews 11:6 tells us that without
faith we cannot please God. However, this faith is not limited to what He calls
us to do in serving Him, but it also includes in our ability to trust God with
the children He has given us, because this too is part of our service to Him.
If you do not have children yet, but some day desire to have children, there is
nothing wrong with being prepared now to be good stewards of the children He
will bless you with, if that is part of His plan for your life.
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