The Deliverer is Born

3/2/2008 7:46 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time:             Focus:  The deliverer is born

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Exodus 2:1-10

          Message of the verses:  “1 ¶  Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.  2  The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

3  But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.  4  His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

          5 ¶  The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.  6  When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews’ children."  7  Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?"  8  Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go ahead." So the girl went and called the child’s mother.  9  Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.  10  The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water.’”

          There is a lot to digest in this section of Scripture.  The law that the Egyptians had made to kill all of the Hebrew babies was still in effect when Amram and Jochebed had their baby boy, but Jochebed knew in her heart that this baby was something special in the eyes of God, so by faith she hid the baby boy until he was too old to hide and then she, by faith put him into a wicker basket and sent him down the Nile with his sister keeping a close eye on him. 

          1Cor. 1:27 has this to say, “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong.”  This is one of the great verses in the New Testament, and it apply portrays the Scripture I am looking at today, for God was using a little baby who was as weak as all little babies to deliver a nation from slavery.  There are other places in the Bible where God used babies in His plan, but the most famous was the Lord Jesus Christ, for just as the this verse says, God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,” and the Son of God coming in the weakness of a baby surely did that, just as Moses who was the first deliverer did in this section.

          This was part of the plan of God, and as Pharaoh’s daughter lifted this baby out of the river she was beginning to do the plan of God that He had for Israel, for He put compassion into this woman’s heart so she did not kill this baby but had a desire to raise this baby.  There is great irony in the next section, and that is that Miriam, Moses’ sister offered to get a Hebrew nurse to care for this little baby, and so Moses’ real mother got to raise her own child until he was weaned and got paid for this job she would have gladly done for free.  In the Hebrew Moses means to be drawn out and in the Egyptian Moses means born or son.

          Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Last week as I was getting ready to teach Sunday school, and as usual I became nervous because of having IBS I began to pray to the Lord about this and I know that He put the verse in 1Cor. in my mind about using the weak things to accomplish what He wanted to accomplish and the IBS is truly something that is weak in my life and God used that last Sunday.  Verse 29 of 1Cor. chapter one gives the reason as to why God uses weak things to accomplish His will:  “so that no man may boast before God.”

My Steps of Faith for Today:  “Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”