God Always Provides

Exodus 2:1-3,5-10, ESV

“Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 

Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took 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 you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. And 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. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

This story of Moses’s beginning is amazing. He was supposed to be killed according to the order of Pharoah that all male babies of the Israelites were to be killed because of the number of the Israelites was increasing so rapidly. Moses was saved by his mother’s quick thinking in what we will call a miniature Noah’s Ark.

When Pharoah’s daughter found the child, she took the child for her own. Moses would not grow up a slave but as the princess’s son in the palace. Moses would be nursed by his own mother until he was weaned, so he grew up in his youngest years with his mother’s words and influence. On top of that his mother received wages for taking care of Moses until he was weaned. Only God can make those things happen.

He received the best care, the best education, the best clothing until he was forty years old. He would know all the customs of the Egyptians so that 40 years later, he would know how to approach the next Pharoah. Yes, Moses fled for the desert for forty years, but he had the best beginning possible and He was never out of reach from God.

For us, God always supplies, and much of the time it is in ways we would not have thought. God knows where we are, what we need, how we need it and when we need it. He is never late, he never runs out of blessings, and He never runs out of miracles, and He never stops amazing us.

Prayer:
God our Father, You always see, You always know, and You always come to our rescue. Right now, Father there is some that are in need, fill their cup Lord to overflowing. Provide according to Your riches in Glory by Christ Jesus! I ask, and I thank You in advance Father God, Amen!