“When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it …. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”
Exodus 2:3
Moses was born into Hebrew slavery. The Egyptian king had issued a decree that all male babies born to enslaved women were to be killed. God-fearing midwives found ways to defy this order, thus enabling Moses’ mother Jochebed to keep her baby. But the authorities surely would begin to hear the cries of three-month-old Moses. Jochebed chose to find a way to conceal and preserve him. Under the sovereign hand of God, he was found hidden in the reeds by the princess who adopted him and raised him in the royal household.
When he was grown, Moses killed an overseer who was abusing a Hebrew slave. After being confronted about it, he fled to preserve his own life, settled in the land of Midian, and married the daughter of a priest. God rescued Moses from the jaws of death, according to His divine plan, and sent him back to be the rescuer of his own people.
Each of us has a back story, perhaps with little knowledge of how our lives have been protected and preserved. As God-followers, we rest in His providential care all the days of our lives.
When he was grown, Moses killed an overseer who was abusing a Hebrew slave. After being confronted about it, he fled to preserve his own life, settled in the land of Midian, and married the daughter of a priest. God rescued Moses from the jaws of death, according to His divine plan, and sent him back to be the rescuer of his own people.
Each of us has a back story, perhaps with little knowledge of how our lives have been protected and preserved. As God-followers, we rest in His providential care all the days of our lives.
Scripture Focus
Exodus 2
Insight
“Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:16)
Bible In A Year
- Jeremiah 41-42
- Psalm 122
- 1 Corinthians 16