7-28-23

I have heard it said that abortion is the scourge of America. It truly seems like it is. When we think of the number of babies lost every year, how it must grieve God’s heart.

There was another time, in Exodus 1-3 where the Pharoah was worried about a baby rising to fame and being more powerful than he, so called for all of the baby boys to be killed right after birth. Leaving the girls. Thankfully there were Godly midwives at the time who just couldn’t follow that order so they saved the boys, but there was one boy in particular who God would use greatly so God made provision for him.  Moses. 

Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 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. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[b] 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. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 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. 6 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.

7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 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. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter, Bithiah, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[c] saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

Think for a moment about God’s provision in Moses’ life. There are no coincidences, it wasn’t luck. God put everyone in place so that the Levite woman, Jochebed, could hide him and watch so that nothing harmed him before he was meant to be found. THEN no one less than the Pharoah’s daughter should find him. Of course, how amazing that his own mother got to breast feed him for her. Bithiah helped him to grow up just like a grandchild of the Pharoah, great food, the best of everything. God was providing and setting the stage for what was to come in his long life. From his first little cry to his last breath, God was with Moses. Even though he sinned, and was imperfect, God watched and kept him. Just like he does for us. When you look over your life, how many times can you see God’s hand on your life. The older I get, the more I see.

“I SEE THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR GOODNESS, ALL OVER MY LIFE, ALL OVER MY LIFE. I SEE YOUR PROMISES IN FULFILLMENT, ALL OVER MY LIFE, ALL OVER MY LIFE…..”

Shirlene Peterson