Sunday 19 Mar 2023

March 19: Exodus 2:1-10

Key Verse: Exodus 2:8
‘Yes, go,’ she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.

Devotion:
One of the things which still surprises me is the amount of stories I hear about how God is looking after people in extraordinary ways. The story of Moses birth is just one of those moments where God used the soft heart of the Pharaoh’s daughter to make sure Moses would survive even when the Egyptian king was trying everything to make sure no baby boys were born to the Hebrew people.

If this were in more modern times the king would have an arrest warrant out on them for crimes against humanity; but this was a very different time back then. The people ruled with iron fists and would make sure they did everything and anything to ensure their survival. But, like always, there was a chink in his armour, the soft heart of his own daughter who felt sorry for the child crying in the basket.

As if that was not enough, God continues to make sure things get even more extraordinary. The servants of Pharaoh's daughter went to find a woman suitable for nursing the child and they chose the child’s real mother! And then… she gets paid for raising her own child, a child which should never have survived according to the law of the land!

God continues to do many miraculous things in our world today, just as He did back then. We may not get to hear of many of them because people are afraid to talk out when something has happened which just doesn’t seem to make sense! The press and peer pressure has made sure people do not step out of line and cause doubt within the system! But God continues to work! And He uses extraordinary mothers to do that every day!

Points to Ponder:
Do you know how extraordinary your mother is/was?

A blessed Happy Mothering Sunday to all God’s wonderful daughters!