Exodus 2:9, “Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older she took him to Pharoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying “I drew him out of the water.”
Do you have a problem that you need God to intervene and bring about a desired result? When things look impossible, and you need Him to deliver you with a good result? A time when bad things have gone on too long Perhaps changes made without your consent have gone against you in a situation, and you just want to give up, and you think, what is the use? I have worked so hard, and for what? Then, there is the complete chaos of worldly events in our culture that are evil and far from God’s way. This was the situation in Exodus when a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph, was oppressing the Israelites. He made their life bitter and made them work as slaves. Then, out of desperation, since they were too many and too mighty for the Egyptians (Ex. 1:9) he made a law that all male babies would be killed to try and curtail their population. But Moses’s mother, Jochebed, and sister, Miriam, had complete trust in God and knew how wrong it would be to kill her baby son. But there was little she could do to change a law that evil Pharoh had put in place to kill every boy baby but let any girl baby live. So, Moses’s mother courageously made a papyrus basket coated with tar and pitch and knew what she was doing because this small basket would be insulated from the weather and hard to see. She put her baby son in it. This was her only alternative, and God blessed her courageous plan to save her son. Pharoh’s extermination program was overruled by God’s law of protection and intervention in the birth and national growth of the Israelites. What do you need God’s protection and intervention about right now?
Moses was God’s choice to place a Hebrew in the house of Pharoah, and He did that through this Hebrew woman’s great trust and courage in God to protect her baby son’s life. This was an evil and unjust situation. Yet God had a plan, and His plan never fails despite evilness taking place. What a picture of complete trust in God that these two women, one older, one younger, a mother and daughter, had in God to protect this baby boy despite the political climate’s rule.
Do you feel all alone in the group of people you work with in your Biblical beliefs and values? Or maybe within your group of relatives? Or the state in which you live? Perhaps you feel frustrated by how little you can do to change other’s opinions that are just wrong and ungodly. Look for courageous ways around the evil around you and act against it. Then trust God to use your testimony of integrity, hard work ethic, and trustworthiness. Ask Him to bless those efforts and exalt you in His time, as 1 Peter 5:6 declares, “Humble yourselves, therefore under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”
It takes time to earn the trust of others. Take every opportunity to prove your reliability and your integrity. Remember Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” Stand firm in Christ. Trust God to bless your efforts, both big and small. Trust in God for a way out of your difficulties and to remove roadblocks. God had a chosen purpose for Moses, and He also has a purpose for you. Trust Him to bring out His outcome of your problem. The LORD can use you. He often used common people just like he used Moses’s mother and sister that saved the life of baby Moses due to their courage and trust in God’s almighty protection and plan. Jochebed was a woman of vision that trusted and believed in the Word of God. She likely knew the story of Noah, a godly man that God saved in an ark, made with pitch, just like He would save baby Moses in an ark type basket, made with pitch she constructed. Trust God. Stay in the Word that will give you strength, wisdom, and ask God for Him to give you a vision for your child, as He did for Jochebed who also lived in an evil time against the Israelites. Any other problematic situation? Same thing. Trust God. It isn’t about who you are. It is about whose you are and who is with you. the answer is the great I AM — be still and know that I AM GOD.
Listen to Jeremy Camp – Be Still (Lyric Video).