The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 2:4-9,
"His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him [Moses]. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. 'This is one of the Hebrew babies,' she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?' 'Yes, go,' she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother. 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."
This is such an amazing account! Pharaoh had given an order that all male babies born to Hebrew women were to be thrown into the Nile River. Moses mother defied the order and kept Moses as long as she could. When he was three months old she made a basket, coated it with tar and pitch, put Moses in it and placed it in the river - in a strategic place where Pharaoh's daughter might see it.
"His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him [Moses]. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. 'This is one of the Hebrew babies,' she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?' 'Yes, go,' she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother. 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."
This is such an amazing account! Pharaoh had given an order that all male babies born to Hebrew women were to be thrown into the Nile River. Moses mother defied the order and kept Moses as long as she could. When he was three months old she made a basket, coated it with tar and pitch, put Moses in it and placed it in the river - in a strategic place where Pharaoh's daughter might see it.
See it she did and had her female slave go get Moses out of the river. Then Moses' sister (I assume might have been the female slave that fished Moses out of the river, and would have also provided Moses' mother the information as where to place the basket) asked Pharaoh's daughter if she should get a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for her.
This is so like God working behind the scenes. Moses' sister, as you would expect, got Moses' own mother and brought her to Pharaoh's daughter, who told her to nurse Moses-- and that she would pay her for it!
We can't miss God's handiwork in all of this! As I say, an amazing account! I wonder what he might be doing in our day that is just as fantastic? We will only know if we keep our eyes open...
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know. A blog with all my posts can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
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