Divine Rescue and Placement [Exodus 2:1-11]
In what seemed like a random set of events surrounding the first few months of Moses’ life, God orchestrated details to save Moses and God’s people. God rescues us from danger to place us in the center of His plans.
KEY IDEA
No matter what the enemies of God may throw against you, God provides a way of salvation to deliver you to safety. It may not make logical sense to you, but what God is looking for in you is trust.
GOD’S AMAZING DELIVERANCE
The Levites were descendants of the fourth son of Jacob. They later become the people who assist priests in their duties. Their inheritance from God was “the Lord.”
These parents are known to us as Amram and Jochebed. This baby is their third child.
Under penalty of death, they hid the baby for three full months. Then, in an act of faith, built a basket (“littleark”) for him to provide safety from drowning.
However, they likely expected it to be found, and even had his sister stationed nearby for response and reaction, as needed. This is an act of trust in the providence of God Almighty.
Pharoah’s daughter and her servants/slaves find the basket and their hearts are moved to compassion, apparently by God.
Miriam, the baby’s sister, alertly and wisely shows up and asks if can find/provide the help needed to keep the Hebrew boy alive
Jochebed (his own mother) is made the “wet nurse” for the boy as he grows. She is even paid for raising her own son!
After the baby is weaned, she brings the baby to Pharoah’s daughter, who has adopted him and now raises him as her own. She names him Moses, (“draw out”), an Egyptian name.
GOD’S DELIVERANCE AND YOU
All of us have a death warrant out on our lives.
We try our own feeble ways of providing and protecting our lives and those dear to us. It is never enough
Ultimately, if we are to experience salvation from destruction, we have to trust God and He has to intervene.
When He does, we are blessed in ways beyond our imagination!
He also uses our experiences to prepare us for all that is yet to come.
Moses is not unique in this sense: God has a plan for your life, too.
