Summer At Sea: Week 3 Day 5

Exodus 1: 22-2:4

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 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. 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. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

In today’s Scripture we again find a Hebrew woman who trusted in God over the edict of Pharaoh (see Hebrews 11:23). Any one who has had a three month old can understand the difficulty in trying to hide a baby; if a baby wants to cry, it will. Not wanting to risk him being heard, the mother decided to trust in a basket (in Hebrew, basket can also mean ark) and the very water that was supposed to take his life, in hopes of saving his life. 

As with so many things with God, what was meant for evil (the water) would be used for good. This mother (and father according to Hebrews 11:23) seeing that the child was no ordinary child, hoped the providence of God would save him. 

Life can throw a lot of ugly stuff at us, but if we keep our eyes on Jesus, He can show us by His Holy Spirit in us, that what is meant for evil in our lives can be used for good if we will trust in Him. 

Can you trust the hard stuff to God today?