Ex. 1:12-13 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly.
The more we, as Christians, are oppressed, the more the Word will multiply and spread? Is being oppressed by people worth the cost to spread the love of Jesus? I can say YES! Can you?
Ex. 1:17 the midwives feared God.
What did they know about the God of the Israelites that they feared Him?
What stories had they heard the Israelites telling about God and how He cared for the Israelites?
Ex. 1:20 God blessed the midwives with their own families.
The midwives, it appears, had faith in the God of the Israelites.
Ex. 2:3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket 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.
Moses' mother's name was Jochebed. Her name means Jehovah Glorified. What faith she must have had in Jehovah to be able to trust that her baby would be taken care of! Could you have put your child in a basket, in the Nile? I've seen the Nile, been in a boat in the Nile and I can say for absolute certain...it would take a GREAT faith for me to put my child in a basket and put them in the water with the hippos and crocodiles!
Moses' sister must have had great courage to approach Pharaoh's daughter and ask permission to find someone to nurse the baby.
Jachebed nursed her own child and, according to vs 9, Pharaoh's daughter paid her to do it! So God provided for Jachebed!
Ex. 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
The promise to be brought out was a promise before they were brought out! It was a promise before Moses even took the job. God's promises are for us at the beginning, middle, and end of our problems. They are His promise to us whether we believe them or not. Let's choose to believe.
Ex. 3:22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.
If they wouldn't have asked, they wouldn't have received? God was also providing for the next generation. Notice it says they will put the silver, gold and clothes on their sons and daughters. These same sons and daughters are the ones who got to go into the promised land!!
Ex. 9:20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of The Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.
Even in a pagan land, there were those that feared The Lord and listened to Moses.
These are just some thoughts that The Lord brought out to me. I hope they spark some thoughts within you also!
A teaser for the next blog....how would you react if you were invited to a Muslim home?
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