God is Faithful

Exodus 2:2 “The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.”

Moses was beautiful when he was born and that beauty is referenced in Exodus 2:2, Acts 7:20 and Hebrews 11:23. This beauty of the baby has an important role in the salvation of the whole kingdom. This is because we learn that God blesses us for one important reason, we use them for Him. It is because the king’s order was so powerful that if they saved Moses, the whole family will be in danger. This beauty is the reason the mother was forced to protect the kid. As per Hebrews 11:23, this beauty gave the parents faith against the king’s orders.

This is the reason behind all our blessings and resources. If God has given us anything good, then He has a purpose with that. We can see many such examples like David’s experiences when he was a shepherd, Samson’s strength, Solomon’s wisdom etc. We do not see anybody sacrificing to or worshipping God. We read in Acts that Moses was divinely beautiful or beautiful before God. This tremendous beauty is God’s answer to a nation’s slavery. We expect the Lord to be powerful to show great miracles in our lives so that we will be proved to be successful in front of others. But God answers us with simple things like when the romans were ruling and Israel was so lost, a simple child was the answer and was encouraged to celebrate by us. It is not impossible for God to directly redeem and send us away from Egypt, but His plan is that we would become worthy to inherit Canaan.

God could have prevented the king from killing innocent children. We should know that God has pre-destined us and he knows who will actually get to live in Canaan. It was the children of those who were living there. The murders continued for many years and only Joshua and Caleb where spared. God knew who would enter glory and kept their parents alive. God would turn evil into good as in Gen 50:20 because He is faithful and has only one plan with our life that is we become worthy of the kingdom of heaven. In 1 Corinthians 1:9 we read that we are called towards the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Moses was delivered to the world for protection. The same Nile which had killed many children had saved Moses from death because God had a plan with him. Miriam wanted to see what would happen to Moses came forward and with a great courage and told her that she would bring somebody to nurse the baby. All this happens because the baby was crying. The baby was beautiful to be saved by Moses’s parents and he was crying to be saved by the Pharaoh’s daughter. We see God’s faithfulness here.

When Moses had grown up, he thought he was strong to kill an Egyptian. But the Lord never allowed him to fight the whole of his lifetime. Even in Midian we read that he just stood up and did not fight. In the only occurrence of his fight, we read he became fearful. In Galatians 5:20, we read how anger and enmity even to the worst enemy comes from the flesh. We read these sins as the works of the flesh. In flesh if we try to receive blessings or authority, people will say “who made you judge and a prince”. Moses was actually a prince but his own people denied that. In Acts 7:35, we read that. But if people had accepted Moses as a warrior, the actual salvation would not have happened. This is the faith we should have on God.

Even in Midian, Moses thought that all his beauty, his knowledge and strength was all used to shepherd a priest’s flock in wilderness. But it is the faithfulness of God to bring him to Horeb, the mountain of God. This is his destiny where he is transformed to be a great leader. To come to Horeb, he had to come through the taste of death, education by the world in its sinfulness (Hebrews 7:25), rejection by his own people and become a very simple shepherd with no great authority.

But life after Horeb is different.

Amen.