The Birth of a Deliverer

Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him coated with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. Then his sister stood a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

Pharoah's daughter went down to bathe in the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. When she opened it, she saw the child- a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "this is one of the Hebrew boys."

Then his sister said to Pharoah's daughter, "Should I go and call a woman from the Hewbrews to nurse the boy for you?"

" Go, " Pharoah's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother. Then Pharoah's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give you wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharoah's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because, " she said, "I drew him out of the water," Exodus 2:1-10

Again, a Hebrew taken into unusual circumstances for God's purposes. I am sure Moses's mother did not want to give up her son but anted him to live and was willing to give him up in order that he might live.

I am sure Moses would have preferred to grow up at home with his siblings, friends and his parents but he needed to be trained in the courts of Pharoah for his future role as deliverer.

God's plans are way higher than ours. If Moses's mum was successful in keeping him hidden from Pharoah and he not be taken into Pharoah's household then he would never have been a deliverer, instead he would have needed a deliverer.

What difficulties are you facing? What struggles are before you? Are you alone against the world? I know how that feels, not pleasant. Yet what is God's purpose?

Our comfort and security are not paramount. Our faith, reliance on Him, our relationship with Him and trust in Him are what counts. We must let Him be God. Amen!