God’s Timing: Moses

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”  When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. Exodus 1:22, ESV

Jacob and his family lived in Canaan when a serve famine hit the land that was going to last for seven years. God made a way for Jacob’s son, Joseph, to become second-in-command to Pharaoh in Egypt. Joseph brought his father and the rest of his family to Egypt to care for them during the famine. Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation later died, but the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly. They multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

A new king arose in Egypt who did not know anything about Joseph. Because the Israelites had grown so strong, the new king of Egypt feared them and put fear in all of Egyptians towards the Israelites. The king enslaved the Israelites and treated them harshly, but God kept blessing them and they continued to grow in number. Pharaoh tried to put an end to their growth by commanding his people to do something evil - throw every Hebrew baby boy into the Nile River.

God always wants us to know that no matter what the situation looks like, He has a plan. At the time Pharaoh gave this command Moses was a baby. It would appear by looking at the circumstances that Moses would die. His mother kept him hidden for three months but when she could no longer hide him God gave her insight about what to do. She put together a basket with tar pitch, put baby Moses inside, and placed the basket in the Nile River. At the time Moses was placed in the Nile, Pharaoh’s daughter and her attendants were coming down to the river. Baby Moses cried and Pharaoh’s daughter heard him. The attendants brought him to her and when she saw the baby, she had compassion on him and decides to raise him as her own child. Now Moses’s sister was watching to see what would happen. She went to Pharaoh’s daughter and asked if she could get someone to nurse the child for her. Pharaoh’s daughter agreed and his sister brought her mother. Pharaoh’s daughter paid Moses’s mother to care for him.

God is teaching us so many lessons in this story: 1) We do not need to fear those who are in power over us. Scripture said that Moses’s mom tried to keep him hidden as long as she could. She did not want to see him die and did not have the power to keep him alive, but God had already made a plan. 2) God’s timing is always perfect. We do not need to get anxious about how things are going to work out. Moses’s mom was about to miss her blessing trying to protect her son. God not only allowed her to nurse her him, but even paid her to take care of him. I love that God could have had Moses born at any time, but he chose to have him conceived right when Pharaoh was trying to commit genocide of the Jews.

It does not matter how hopeless your situation looks; God has already worked out a plan. Get out of God’s way and let Him give you the blessing that you could have never imagined. He has it all worked out! Amen.

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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