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The Ministry of Motherhood

  • Feb 25, 2021

The Ministry of Motherhood

Women’s Work

  • Feb 23, 2021

Women’s Work

The Truth About Mary Magdalene

  • Feb 18, 2021

The Truth About Mary Magdalene

The Good News Girls

  • Feb 16, 2021

The Good News Girls

Compassion for Women

  • Feb 11, 2021

Compassion for Women

Distracted with Much Serving

  • Feb 9, 2021

Distracted with Much Serving

No Throwing Stones

  • Feb 4, 2021

No Throwing Stones

She Was a Sinner

  • Feb 2, 2021

She Was a Sinner

The Eternal Thirst Quencher

  • Jan 28, 2021

The Eternal Thirst Quencher

The Laws of Love

  • Jan 26, 2021

The Laws of Love

Follow Him

  • Jan 21, 2021

Follow Him

Daughter, Your Faith Has Healed You

  • Jan 19, 2021

Daughter, Your Faith Has Healed You

In His Service

  • Jan 14, 2021

In His Service

Share in Their Joy

  • Jan 12, 2021

Share in Their Joy

Highly Favored One

  • Jan 7, 2021

Highly Favored One

The Value of a Woman

  • Jan 5, 2021

The Value of a Woman

See You in 2021

  • Nov 20, 2020

See You in 2021

In God’s Hands

  • Nov 19, 2020

In God’s Hands

A Disposable Woman?

  • Nov 17, 2020

A Disposable Woman?

A Bearer of Bad News

  • Nov 12, 2020

A Bearer of Bad News

A Wicked Queen Mother vs A Godly Princess

  • Nov 10, 2020

A Wicked Queen Mother vs A Godly Princess

A Heart for Hospitality

  • Nov 6, 2020

A Heart for Hospitality

The Willing Widow

  • Nov 4, 2020

The Willing Widow

A Wretched Woman

  • Nov 2, 2020

A Wretched Woman

Wicked Women

  • Oct 30, 2020

Wicked Women

Missed Opportunity

  • Oct 28, 2020

Missed Opportunity

How To Spot A Mother

  • Oct 26, 2020

How To Spot A Mother

A Wicked Thing

  • Oct 23, 2020

A Wicked Thing

Grace in the Genealogy

  • Oct 21, 2020

Grace in the Genealogy

Victim or Adulteress?

  • Oct 19, 2020

Victim or Adulteress?

A Relationship Ruined By Resentment

  • Oct 16, 2020

A Relationship Ruined By Resentment

Beauty, Brains, and a Blessing

  • Oct 14, 2020

Beauty, Brains, and a Blessing

Giving Back To God

  • Oct 12, 2020

Giving Back To God

Crimes Against Women

  • Oct 9, 2020

Crimes Against Women

When Women Are His Weakness

  • Oct 7, 2020

When Women Are His Weakness

Raising A Leader

  • Oct 5, 2020

Raising A Leader

A Redeemer

  • Oct 2, 2020

A Redeemer

A Dedicated Daughter-in-Law

  • Sep 30, 2020

A Dedicated Daughter-in-Law

A Woman With a Weapon

  • Sep 28, 2020

A Woman With a Weapon

The Leader of a Nation

  • Sep 25, 2020

The Leader of a Nation

The Faith of an Outsider

  • Sep 23, 2020

The Faith of an Outsider

The Daughters of Zelophehad

  • Sep 21, 2020

The Daughters of Zelophehad

The Prophetess

  • Sep 18, 2020

The Prophetess

A River Rescue

  • Sep 16, 2020

A River Rescue

The Temptress

  • Sep 14, 2020

The Temptress

The Double Standard

  • Sep 11, 2020

The Double Standard

A Daughter Defiled

  • Sep 9, 2020

A Daughter Defiled

Stolen Statues

  • Sep 7, 2020

Stolen Statues

The Unloved Wife

  • Sep 4, 2020

The Unloved Wife

A Meddling Matriarch

  • Sep 2, 2020

A Meddling Matriarch

Beyond Redemption?

  • Aug 31, 2020

Beyond Redemption?

A Salty Warning

  • Aug 28, 2020

A Salty Warning

Oppressed Yet Blessed

  • Aug 26, 2020

Oppressed Yet Blessed

The Mother of a Nation

  • Aug 24, 2020

The Mother of a Nation

The God Who Sees

  • Aug 21, 2020

The God Who Sees

Beautiful but Barren

  • Aug 19, 2020

Beautiful but Barren

Past Messages
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BenSep 16, 2020 1:00 pm GMT

A River Rescue


Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 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. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen.


Exodus 2:1-4


For context, read all of Exodus 2

 

Can you imagine being a Hebrew mother during Pharaoh’s decree to kill all of the baby boys? The midwives had already stood courageously and did not kill the baby boys as directed. This time, Pharaoh tells all of the Hebrew people to throw every newborn son they have into the Nile River. Hebrew women must have been so anxious throughout their pregnancies. If they gave birth to a boy, it must have been devastating. What a helpless, hopeless feeling. 

 

And yet one Hebrew woman, Moses’s mother, acted in defiance of this decree. When she saw that she had given birth to a beautiful baby boy, she kept him hidden for as long as she could. When he was about three months, she did indeed put him in the Nile as commanded. But she did not throw him to his death. She put him in a basket and set him to float among the reeds of the Nile. His sister, Miriam, kept watch over him at a distance.

 

When Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe, she found the basket with baby Moses inside and she was moved with compassion for him. His sister saw her opportunity! She ran to Pharaoh’s daughter and asked if she would need a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for her. Pharaoh’s daughter agreed to pay Moses’s mother to nurse him until he was grown. His mother was reunited with her baby boy! Once he was grown, his mother took him to live with Pharaoh’s daughter as her son. It must have been heart-wrenching to give him up. Yet what a gift that she had been able to nurse her own baby and that he would grow to become a man.

 

And what a man he would become. The man who would lead God’s people out of Egypt and toward freedom. The man who would give the law and instruct Israel in how to worship the LORD as He intends. The man God would use to set His people free.

 

But the WORD about women in today’s story is that before the LORD used a man to save His people, He used women to save His people. He used a mother’s love to give Moses’s mother the courage it would take to defy Pharaoh and hide her son. He gave her the strength it must have taken to hand him back to Pharaoh’s daughter when he was older. He gave Miriam the wisdom and quick-thinking to approach Pharaoh’s daughter with a plan that would allow Moses’s own mother to feed him as a baby. A plan that would ensure his protection as he grew. A plan that placed him in a position to uniquely understand life in the Egyptian court and to be educated in an Egyptian culture. Finally, God softened the heart of an Egyptian princess. Her decision to adopt a Hebrew baby boy was also in defiance of the king. But that didn’t stop her. She raised a foreign child who would grow up to be a mighty leader of His people.

 

Sisters, God still uses women to save His people. We just have to be willing to listen and to act.

 

Reflect

How can God use women today to save His people?

 

Pray

Lord, I want to be a woman that You can use. Show me how I can make a difference for Your kingdom today. Amen.


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Sue
a year ago
Thats awesome to stop and think about the desperation and the courage of both Moses mum and her daughter.
To trust God and to act in response to the situation, God did the rest.

Its amazing really the reward she got.
It doesn't really talk about the father/husband in this recount.
The focus is more on the mother.

All interesting and encouraging.
Moses mum later on when they left Egypt...that would've been a surreal emotional experience for her.
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