Post by: Pastor Billy Shelton
”Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 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. 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. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. 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.“
Exodus 2:1-9
When Moses’ mother delicately began to fashion a makeshift ark out of the bulrushes she had accumulated from the river behind her house she knew that her options had been exhausted. For three months she had protected and sheltered her defenseless baby boy but now all she could do was lay her baby in the arms of fate, and hope that God had a plan in the midst of the enemy’s plot. With tear filled eyes and a broken heart she watched as that which she loved the most floated helplessly down the river. In this moment it felt like she had lost everything. There were no peaceful thoughts of restoration; only grief and mourning where joy and happiness used to reside. She didn’t know how this was going to turn out. She didn’t know how this was going to end up. There were 1000 ways that her baby could die as he floated down the river, but she couldn’t think of one scenario in which all this turned out well for her. Yet in the throes of crisis she still had the ability to trust God. In the end, God not only brought Moses back into the custody of his mother; but he caused Pharaoh's daughter to pay her to nurse her own son. Not only did she get her baby back, she was appointed as his official nurse; which means she got paid to do something that she would have done for free.
Today, I want you to remember that God has a plan that’s unfolding in the middle of the enemy’s plot. If you can persist in this moment of uncertainty, he’s going to take what the enemy meant for evil and use it for your good. Your situation may not look great now, but God wants you to know that in the end, it’s all going to work out. When all this is over, you’re going to be more blessed than you were when it began.
Say this prayer with me. “Lord, help me to lay that which I value you most in your hands. My marriage, my children, my dreams, and my life; help me to give it all to you, confidently expecting you to do what I can't. Help me to be patient, as I wait for your plan to come to fruition. Knowing what you have in store for me, is far better than anything I had in mind. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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