Much better than my “best-guess!”
SCRIPTURE: Exodus (NIV) 1:22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
Exodus (NIV) 2:1 Now a man of the house 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. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
OBSERVATION: The Jews in Egypt had grown to such a number that Pharoah made a plan to stop their growth: he would have each baby boy thrown into the Nile river. Moses’ mother, tried to hide her baby, but it was impossible to hide him from Pharoah’s soldiers. So, she came up with a plan, she would hide him in the reeds along the Nile river. It was a God-plan!
God used the very thing that was meant for the death of the baby boys, the river, to became the salvation of Moses! Pharoah’s daughter found him and brought him to live as her son! And Moses’s mother became his nurse!
APPLICATION: Oh, how we wish God would deliver us from the trouble and turmoil we see around us. We complain and ask, “Why…what are you doing…why must I stay here?” We cannot fully understand God’s plans…that is until we have lived it out. Only then will we really see how the trouble we are experiencing will be used by God to fulfill His promises and bring Him glory.
That which the devil would use to defeat us can be the very thing God uses to bring victory! We should never despair! God used the very household of the one trying to destroy the Israelites to bring their salvation!
PRAYER: Lord, I am learning to trust you! You often work through the trouble around me for my good. You are Trustworthy! Your ways are higher than my ways. You see further into the future than I do. When I start to make decisions by my “best-guess” I will pause to consider what you are saying. Amen
Pastor Leon
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