#DailyDevotion The Lord Has A Plan For His Church

Lent day 29 Monday

Read Ex 2:1–22

Exo 2:3-10  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.  (4)  And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.  (5)  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.  (6)  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?”  (8)  And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.  (9)  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.  (10)  When the child grew up, 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.”

Is the Lord a master manipulator of people and events or what?  400 years have passed since we left the children of Israel in Egypt.  Things have changed just as God told Abraham they would.  Egypt is no longer a friend to the Israelites.  While they don’t want to lose the resource the Egyptians want to keep them under control.  God has other plans.  He’s going to take this one Israelite boy from the tribe of Levi and have him grow up in Pharaoh’s house.  Now just to clear up some misconception about Moses from every movie ever made, as we can see from the text here, everyone including Moses himself knew he was a Hebrew.

Now Moses would be prepared for his future purposes of the Lord in Pharaoh’s house.  He’d get the best education, military training, and leadership training in the country.  God was preparing him for something great.  He was going to lead the Israelite nation out of Egypt and lead them in the wilderness for 40+ years and have them battle inhabitants along the way.  He would have to organize them and move them.  He would have to be better at logistics than UPS.

Jesus would fulfill Moses.  Having similar humble beginnings he would escape the flood coming out of the dragon’s mouth in the form of Herod’s soldiers who sought his life as a child.  Jesus also would come out of Egypt.  As to Jesus’ training we can only assume it was typical for his station in life.  But God had a plan for  Jesus and he manipulated the times and the people to have Jesus crucified for the sin of the world so all men may receive eternal life through his sacrifice. The account of Moses isn’t about God has a great plan for your life in mundane things.  He may intend for you to be a day laborer, a simple mother, or other such vocations the world does not think much about.  But God’s ultimate plan for you in Christ Jesus is to enter eternal life with him as his child.  And that isn’t anything to sneeze at.

Lord God, Heavenly Father, you may not have some grand design for my life in this age but I thank you for the grand purpose you have for me in the world to come. In Jesus’ name, amen.