Moses!

For Saturday, January 11, 2025:

Exodus 2:1 NLT: “About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married.”

God is always thinking ahead, planning ahead. God’s ways are not like our ways. He’s not just a step ahead of us – He’s thousands of steps ahead of us!

While in Egypt, a man and a woman were born into families from the tribe of Levi. Eventually, they would meet and be married. Next comes a baby, a boy. But Pharaoh had ordered that male Hebrew babies were to be killed. So what to do?

When mom could no longer hide the infant, she waterproofed a basket, placed the baby in it, and floated it among the reeds in the Nile, the same place Pharaoh’s daughter and her maids came to bathe. They spotted the basket and took possession of the baby, who was crying. Hungry!

The baby’s older sister had watched the whole scene unfold, and she offered to find a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby. So unbeknownst to the royal family, sister brought the baby’s actual mother to care for him, and she was paid for her help! Baby thrived and was eventually returned to Pharaoh’s daughter, who named him Moses and raised him in the palace as her own son.

God knew that the Hebrews would need to be liberated from the cruel Egyptians, and God had a plan. Far in advance, he knew just how this would all play out. The surprising thing is that God’s prep for the Hebrew rescue was put in motion three generations before it actually came to fruition.

God has a plan, and only God knows the timing!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship