by Bobby Jackson
What a crazy scene and a crazy time! How could people behave like this? No wonder Warner Brothers made this into a movie; you couldn’t write as twisted a plot even from the very beginning of Moses’ life.
How heinous to kill babies by throwing them into the Nile River? How heinous to kill an Egyptian soldier and try to cover it up? Yet Moses was used by God. I think it is interesting that the Nile god became known as the god who destroys the Israelite babies. Maybe that is why it was striking enough to Pharaoh’s daughter that this baby was being saved by the Nile that she rescued him and allowed Moses to be her son.
The God who involved Himself in Egyptian history is the same God of today. His character is consistent. I think it is important to ask ourselves as we read especially these books of history, “What do we learn about God is all of this?” Two things come to mind for me:
1. When God makes a promise, He WILL keep it. “God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob” (Exodus 2:24).
2. God is often working upstream or in the background of our stories. God had a plan for Moses from the very beginning of his life. And that makes me wonder, what is God’s plan for my life? For your life?
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