Exiting Egypt Chapter Two Part 2

Exiting Egypt: Chapter Two –

When We’re Most Like God

By Dennis Lee Part 2

We Need to Trust in God

We can trust God to guide us through this life, even though we may not see it at the time in the circumstances that we face. That is exactly what Moses’ mother had to do to resist the temptation to fear given Pharaoh’s command.

There will always be those lurking fears of “what if” that keep us from doing what we have already determined is right.

We Need to Wait on God

We need to wait on God to do His work when we’ve done everything that we have been called to do. Moses’ mom did everything she could, and then she waited on God. Nothing is more difficult than to wait. But to wait in faith believing, that is the secret.

As parents, we have been called upon to train up our children, they are God’s gift to us so that we can train them up in His ways and according to how God created them. We need to do everything we can, but then like Moses’ mom, let them go, place them in God’s hands, and then wait in faith believing God and His promises.

And besides, when they reach that age, we really have no legal control over them, and we can’t hover over them any longer as when they were youngsters. And so they are going to make their own decisions and make their own path in life, and so we need to trust them to God.

Can we trust in God and wait upon Him. We need not only the readiness but also the willingness.

And so we are to put our trust in God and wait upon Him with this knowledge that

God is in Control

That little basket that Moses’ mom put him into, wasn’t a frail ark made out of reeds. Rather it is a mighty vessel of God’s purpose.

Every act and circumstance serves God’s ultimate purpose. The reeds held firm the basket from being carried away by the mighty river. Pharaoh’s daughter came just at the right hour. Moses’ cry came just at the right time for Pharaoh’s daughter to hear. Moses’ sister had just the right words to bring Moses back home to his mother. And the palace safely kept and trained Moses for the next part of God’s plan.

These and hundred’s of other little things combined to bring Moses to that point for God to use Him to deliver His people from their bondages. God was always in control, and God’s purpose was being worked out, even though nobody else could see the much larger picture.

And so, no matter what circumstances come up against us, and no matter what Satan might throw against, God’s purpose and will is going to be accomplished, and by faith, we must believe. And so, can you trust in God and believe enough in His good purposes to wait?

Now, before we get out of this section, there are some real ironies that exist here that I would hate not to bring up.

• Pharaoh’s chosen instrument of destruction for all male babies, the Nile, turns into the means of Moses’ salvation.

• Moses’ mom follows Pharaoh’s instructions, but puts her own twist to them. Instead of tossing him into the Nile, she builds a little ark and sets him inside.

• A member of Pharaoh’s own family saves the very person who would lead Israel out of Egypt and destroy the dynasty.

• Moses mom ends up being paid to do what she most wanted to do in the beginning, and is being funded from Pharaoh’s own budget.

• Moses learns from inside Pharaoh’s own courts what he needs to learn to lead the Jews out of Egypt.

• Pharaoh’s daughter names Moses, giving him a name that betrays much more than she realized, giving him a name that describes what God has in store for His people.

• To the name Moses she states, “Because I drew him out of the water.” Yet, in the Hebrew, it comes from the root meaning “to draw out.” So in the Hebrew Moses would mean, “One who draws out,” which then would have been a prophetic word pointing to his future work, and that is to be the one who brings the children of Israel out of their bondages to the Empire of the Nile.

And so, as we look at this first part of the story there is a lot to tell, and it has a lot more to say than what we imagine. But for me, the greatest is that God’s plan for the future of the children of Israel rested upon the shoulders of one of its own, a helpless babe lying in a fragile basket.

Doesn’t that closely resemble another such story of God’s plan for the future of humanity, and how our future rests upon the shoulders of God turned man as a helpless babe lying in a manger.